- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:15:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- cc: Alan Cantor <Alan.Cantor@MBS.GOV.ON.CA>, <EASI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Liddy Nevile <liddy@motile.net>
I am also intersted in the reasons why you did not use MathML - and whether you do use MathML as an underlying representation, converting it to gif or other format on the fly. Cheers Charles McCN On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Al Gilman wrote: > >Hi, Alan. > >I see by the EASI archives that you are working with the formatting of >equations for accessibility. > > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0211d&L=easi&O=A&P=2406 > >Did you consider using the OBJECT element to insert the image and text into the >host document, and not an IMG element with its ALT attribute? > >This should work enough the same in the browser at the moment but will >configure the content development infrastructure in a mode of operation where >format options that function at a higher level can be integrated as available. > >There are consumers who are tooled up to process TeX or Nemeth, for example, >and there are authors who are tooled up to produce same. By using OBJECT >instead of IMG we allow those folks to connect and do not reduce the best of >the web to the least common denominator. > >Al > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe ------------ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia fax(fr): +33 4 92 38 78 22 W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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