- From: Lloyd G. Rasmussen <lras@loc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 98 15:20:39 EDT
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Another country heard from! I was remiss in not looking at the April 14 guidelines and commenting on them at that time. Generally, if vendors take these reccommendations to heart, especially vendors of the highly automated tools that are proliferating, we will see some great improvements. For a recent example of why we need these guidelines yesterday, see the information for job seekers at http://md.jobsearch.org/html/seekers.html This is a great way to keep the 70% unemployment rate from going down. My preference, as a blind user of Lynx and of Internet Explorer, is to keep the descriptions terse instead of verbose. For example, in the Alt reccommendations concerning section separators, I would not very strongly encourage authors to say "end of such and such" section. These images are separators. They can be more quickly read as a series of identical punctuations, such as *** or ... If the user has her punctuations turned off, that's not the author's problem. The desired effect, really, is a pause in the speech or a blank line in a Braille copy. -- Lloyd Rasmussen Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress 202-707-0535 (work) lras@loc.gov http://www.loc.gov/nls/ (home) lras@sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/lras/
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