Re: Flickr and alt

Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> And yet we do not require knowing how to read in order to read (e.g. 
> voice synthesizers).  Why the double-standard?

Boris, do you not perceive any difference between
/knowing/ how to read and /being physically capable/
of reading (where "reading" is defined as mentally
assigning sounds and semantics to a visually-perceived
string of characters) ?

Philip TAYLOR