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RE: SVG accessibility - how capture the reading order of text

From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 09:59:18 -0700
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010907095705.03872980@localhost>
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Cc: marja@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
At 10:32 AM 9/7/01 -0400, Al Gilman wrote:
>A linear discourse is not obvious from a graphical design.  Unless the author
>thinks about how to couch their message as a narrative, you don't get a
>narrative flow by assembling the pieces that appear in a graphical exposition
>of an idea.  Fluent narrative has glue in it that the layout does without, for
>one thing.

Have you thought about plunging this hot sword into the freezing water on 
GLWG's never-ending raves about 
illustration/graphics/multi-media/text-equivalents? somehow it seems 
pertinent to their "effort"?

--
Love.
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