- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:56:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: "w3c-wai-au@w3.org" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Actually I see this referring more to text used as longdesc than as alt. Using 'search', 'home', 'site index' etc should be a no-brainer. Appropriately describing my wife's painting of our apartment, which doesn't actually look quite like our apartment, is a whole different kettle of fish. Similarly for video description and such. I will happily write alt text, and descriptions for reasonably simple technical drawings, but interpreting artworks is something I find very challenging (and also lots of fun - in my spare time I love it). Charles On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: At 07:18 p.m. 02/11/99 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Including pre-written descripitions, which are generated by professionals, >will provide a high-quality text ready-made. Like at least one other person who's spoken up about this, I'm wondering about the term "professionals." I sense a new line of my sig coming on. ;) -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Professional ALT-text author http://www.kynn.com/+alt Spring 1999 Virtual Dog Show! http://www.dogshow.com/ Enroll now for my web accessibility course http://www.kynn.com/+access --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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