- From: John Gardner <john.gardner@orst.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:59:45 -0900
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@interlog.com>
- Cc: bulatov@dots.physics.orst.edu, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I enjoyed your "Break This Page" discussion of accessible graphics. There is a fundamental limitation to the alt and longdesc tag methods however. For many graphics, a picture is worth a great deal more than a thousand words. For example, just try to describe a US map in words that provide the reader approximately the same information as the map. Can be done, but it would take weeks to read it. We have a discussion of "accessible object-oriented graphics" at http://dots.physics.orst.edu/graphics.html that you might enjoy. We have linked some examples of our preliminary research efforts to go one step, maybe several steps, better than word descriptions. I would be pleased to hear reactions. John Gardner Science Access project Oregon State University
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