- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:20:03 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
I'm not sure if this is a good suggestion or not, but one of the "extra credit" assignments for my accessibility class was to look over the AU WG draft and give any feedback they felt qualified to give -- as possible end users (sorry, "authors") of the authoring tools. One student suggested the following: START QUOTE Beth Devers - 12:25pm Mar 7, 1999 (1.) Week 3 Extra Credit Why don't the HTML authoring tools automatically generate text alternative pages? I recently converted a powerpoint presentation to HTML and with one click, alternative text pages were generated! Some changes had to be made, but the ease of page creation made the task so much easier. END QUOTE Do we want to recommend this as a technique for creating accessible web pages, akin to the "if all else fails..."? Or would this be a distracting technique? (It seems to me that my personal goal is to make all pages accessible, and not produce a "ghettoized" set of text pages when true HTML _should_ be accessible in and of itself; on the other hand, I can see where a simple option to auto- matically create a set of text-only pages and link to them as part of the document could vastly increase the accessibility of a large amount of content.) -- 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/ WWTBLD? Validate your HTML! http://validator.w3.org/
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