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- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:39:35 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13833 Summary: Suggesting new feature: Accessible Image tag for Visually Impaired Hi, I design tactile graphics for visually impaired individuals. The amount of useful visual information is enormous and the majority of it is not accessible to the visually impaired. In H Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Suggesting new feature: Accessible Image tag for Visually Impaired Hi, I design tactile graphics for visually impaired individuals. The amount of useful visual information is enormous and the majority of it is not accessible to the visually impaired. In Html there are two tags for alternative text which are helpful but for a vast number of images a text description is not enough – either sight or tactile impute is needed to access the graphic information. Would it be possible to create a tag for alternative images so that a blind person could download the image and emboss it out on his/her Brailler so that he/she could enjoy the information that only a graphic can convey? In order to make a picture/diagram accessible it often needs to be modified – simplified otherwise the tactile information can be too cluttered and be too difficult to decipher. Visual and tactile information are very similar. It is the eyes and fingers who deliver the information to the brain and the brain interprets. By offering such a tag I feel it would increase the understanding of accessible information dramatically and therefore the amount of such graphics since more illustrators and designers would learn about them and create them. This one html tag could greatly increase education opportunities and the quality of life for the visually impaired. Thank you, Lisa Yayla Huseby Resource Center for the Visually Impaired Oslo, Norway Posted from: 158.36.153.34 User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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