- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: pjenkins@us.ibm.com
- cc: w3C-wai-au@w3.org
I think in this case, where the screen shots are illustrating how a user interface works, it is still important to describe what is going on. If members of this working group can't find out what is happening in our document we have a serious problem functioning, let alone producing something useful. Charles McCN On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 pjenkins@us.ibm.com wrote: I'm not volunteering to describe them, just noting that we came upon this same issue in some on-line education where screen shots are used to "teach" someone how to use a software application. I decided that if the screen shot is only to teach someone sighted how to do something with a visual graphical user interface, then the screen shots do NOT need any long descriptions, for example: how to drag and drop an icon. HOWEVER, if an alternative accessible "view" is available, for example a text structure view of menus, and or a keyboard command way to drag and drop, then that description would need to be considered in the design of the course materials. Regards, Phill Jenkins -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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