- From: Michael Vorburger <mike@vorburger.ch>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:10:19 +0200
- To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Hello my semester at university (EPFL) started again and I have to chose a large study project, 12h a week thing. I am interested to devote it to a WAI related project, and need your advice for chosing between two ideas, as Peter expressed that the real problem are missing ALT tags, not text-equiv. Would you give first priority to: - An ALTifier tool allowing to set ALT attributes? Key ideas: on a side-wide basis, defining ALT once for an image, having it applied automatically to each occurence on each page; indep of HTML authoring tool; quick run to set default automatic ALT, using some heuristics; correct some common MS FrontPage ALT mistakes, such as in automatically generated page banners and HRs; platforms: Win with GUI and UNIX as CLI listimg/setalt commands. or - A TextOnly text-equiv filter as suggested earlier and on the phone conference? Port to Java instead current C++ and working closely together with Daniel's Table linearizer, maybe even Bobby's HTML library, should be discussed. (Please note that I am NOT offended if you people tell me that a text-equiv filter is not really needed at all, because we don't want separate text-only pages. That's an opinion that was expressed in several private mails.) I need to decide and present the project idea to my professor very soon, ideally this week. Cannot wait until next phone conf Nov 4/5. Tx for discussion here ASAP. Tx for your help! Regards, Michael PS: Forburger is spelled with V, like in Vorburger; thank you all. ;-) ---- Michael Vorburger <mike@vorburger.ch> & <michael.vorburger@epfl.ch> KISS. Keep Things Simple, Stupid. http://www.vorburger.ch
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