Re: Low vision usage

At 02:24 PM 2001-11-07 , David Poehlman wrote:
>Al, The answer is yes.  Some times, the image details are just too
>difficult to see or the image contrast is not good enough or the person
>has vision severe enough that images are not good ways for them to
>attain info but they can still read the text.
>

Thank you, David.  

May I ask a follow-up clarifying question?

What you said here could describe a case where the image is completely useless
and simply giving the user the text is as good as it gets.

But that may not be what you meant.  I meant to ask, are there in between
people for whom the image is perceptually degraded to the point that the
assist
from the text is highly valuable; but still there is residual utility in the
image perception so that the text alone is inferior to having access to the
text with image, together.  

Al

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
>To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
>Cc: <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:07 PM
>Subject: RE: Low vision usage
>
>
>At 10:35 AM 2001-11-07 , DPawson@rnib.org.uk wrote:
>>
>>> I would send the suggestions to the User Agent group list
>>> (w3c-wai-ua@w3.org). Tim Lacy is currently the Microsoft contact
>>> participating in the User Agent working group.
>>
>>Thanks Jon.
>>
>>Issue: alt text on images, for low vision users.
>>
>>If I have screen fonts set to large,
>>alt text remains the same size, it doesn't increase
>>proportionately to the screen font.
>>
>>(Its the same on java tooltips btw).
>>Whats it like on opera or amaya or Netscape?)
>>
>
>Question:
>
>Are there some low vision users who should be able to have both the ALT
>and
>image shown at the same time? So the ALT is there to explain what is in
>the
>image of which you see a fragment?
>
>There was the suggestion earlier [failing to find reference at the
>moment]
>that
>LD users should have access to both the text equivalent and the image
>equivalent, displayed together.
>
>Al
>
>>
>>Regards DaveP.
>>
>>
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