- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:59:41 -0700
- To: "Andrew Arch" <amja@optushome.com.au>, "EOWG" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
At 09:32 PM 5/30/01 +1000, Andrew Arch wrote:
>collate comments
From the "Improve usability for non-disabled visitors" section of
http://members.optushome.com.au/amja/wai/ap-auxben2.html
"...Text alternatives"
I would broaden this bullet (or bite it?) to encompass the notion that
"text is not sacred" and that having something akin to illustrative
alternatives to text is of benefit to the millions with mild to severe
learning disorders and the "partially literate".
We so unthinkingly accept the idea of text being "first among equals"
within the communications media because practically everybody working on
these documents is in a rather advanced state of denial about text's
universality. Just a brief mention of how many more people are reached by
illustrations than pure text?
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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