Re: Images and alternative text

See (or listen to) the examples at 
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/aster/aster-toplevel.html
-- these demos are over 15 years old and were produced using the
system I built for my PhD at Cornell.

Boris Zbarsky writes:
 > 
 > Ian Hickson wrote:
 > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Philip Taylor wrote:
 > >>   <img src="..." alt="{x \over y} = {1 \over {y \over x}}">
 > > 
 > ....
 > >    <img src="..." alt="The fraction x over y is equal to 1 divided by the 
 > >    fraction y over x.">
 > 
 > I'm not sure how things would work when listening (not much experience 
 > trying to listen to even moderately complicated math unaccompanied by 
 > visual representation here, and I suspect both approaches Really Suck 
 > for anything complicated, if only because working memory fills up), but 
 > if I were browsing in lynx I'd definitely prefer the former to the
 > latter.
 > 
 > Of course the real question here is target audience.  If this is a 
 > general-population-targeted document, with presumably simple equations, 
 > then the second alternative is better.  If the document is targeted at a 
 > more technical audience, and as the equation complexity increases, the 
 > first option becomes more and more readable compared to the second one.
 > 
 > -Boris

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