- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 07:51:33 -0500
- To: dd@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Daniel, At 10:58 AM 2/4/99 +0100, Daniel Dardailler wrote: > >I think we have a winner: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/waicard10.htm > <...> >> - I guess I missed something months ago, but I think this works better if >> we take out "the function of". "Function of" works OK for animations, but > >I took the <em> out on "function" but I insist we keep the word >itself. It was discussed heavily on the GL list and people really want >ALT to indicate which function the visual performs, not to indicate a >description of the visual (see my examples to Alan: "search" instead >of "little magniflyer glass"). For purely decorative graphics, the >function is nil and ALT="", which is different than no ALT - which is >invalid). OK fine. >> 6. Hypertext Links Use text that makes sense when read out of context. No >> "Click here". >> >> - there is room to substitute 'Do not use "click here"' so I think we >> should substitute that, to keep the phrasing flow consistent. > >My intent with > No "Click here" > was to convey some kind of genericity, as in 'No "click here" kinda > stuff please' > I now have > Hypertext Links: Use text that makes sense when read out > of context. Do not use "click here" for instance. Need to flip sentence order: For instance do not use "click here." For consistency with regard to conciseness, Do not use "click here." "sites" is missing from heading ("Web sites") > > ---------- Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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