RE: multimedia definition

Ah yes.

 

Good point.   

 

How about

 

Multimedia 

Several different media <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium> , including at
least one time based media, synchronized to convey information.  Media may
include text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity.

 

 


Gregg

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Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 

 

 


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From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lguarino@adobe.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:58 PM
To: Gregg Vanderheiden; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: multimedia definition

But we don't consider a combination just of text and graphics to be
multimedia. 

 

Loretta Guarino Reid 
lguarino@adobe.com 
Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering 


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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Gregg Vanderheiden
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:59 PM
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: multimedia definition

 

Multimedia is the use of several different media
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium>  to convey information (text
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text> , audio
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio> , graphics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image> , animation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation> , video
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video> , and interactivity
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactivity> ).

 


Gregg

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