- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:17:14 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I would still like to see a checkpoint that states: Under Guideline 1: Checkpoint 1.x: Ensure that the font size and styling of text content is easy to change. Basically pushing (requiring?) people to use CSS for styling of text, rather than images. COMMENT: Authors using images to style text is one of the fundamental problems of accessibility on the web. The current guidelines seem to perpetuate this problem, by allowing authors to continue this technique. Text equivalents for images used to style text is a poor substitute. In some cases these text equivalents are not even available to the user in the most common browser technologies. For example the ALT content for the AREA element is not rendered by any of the major browsers (i.e when images are configured to be not rendered). Even when text equivalents are rendered, the user often has little control over styling. These are big problems for people with visual impairments (low vision, non-screen reader users). I think there are limited exceptions to this requirement. For example text that is used as part of a logo to "brand" a web site. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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