- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:37:40 -0700
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <emmanuelle@teleline.es>
- Cc: WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 8:11 PM -0400 2001/8/01, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >So here is an attempt: > >non-text (an adjective, as in "non-text element") >Something that doesn't rely on writing to communicate its content. >Normally, a picture, some sound, a movie, and so on. Note that this usualyl >referes to writing as characters output by the computer. >A picture of some writing, that is intended to be read, is both a non-text >element (in that it does not produce letters or words that the computer >renders) so it needs a text equivalent for many users, and a text element in >that it relies on written words rather than communicating graphically. Please don't allow something to be both "x" and "non-x" at the same time. The logical inconsistency is just too much to simply bury in the glossary. Here's a straw man definition: "Text is any content encoded in Unicode-style letters and/or glyphs. Non-text is anything else. Someone who is more up on RFCs and the like can fill in a more technically precise term for "letters". If this were 1983 I'd be saying "ASCII characters." --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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