Re: Vector Graphical Alternatives

Sure you could use longdesc for that. Or you could embed SVG directly - it
can be done to transform reasonably nicely and include a link to the image
for a browser only capable of handling it via a plugin/helper, like IE and
Lynx.

It is an open issue I think whether it is good to use longdesc for something
that isn't HTML as a tatrget.

There has already been work done on this - RDFViz, the  text-only SVG browser
written last year, etc.

Cheers

Charles McCN

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote:

  I'm not sure if this has already come up, but a decent thing to require if
  text-in-images is used is that there be some pointer to a vector based
  alternative. Sometimes it is difficult to convey the same semantics from
  pictures to text, but if there were a slightly more accessible version of
  that image, it would be a help. I thought of this as I was preparing to
  draw yet another node and arc diagram for EARL, and realised how difficult
  it would be for a complex graph to put into words. Using SVG for this would
  be brilliant. Could you use longdesc for that, and then embed the SVG into
  the longdesc page?

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  Kindest Regards,
  Sean B. Palmer
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