Re: Study project: ALTifier or text-equiv -- Please choose!

Hi Victor,

After reading all arguments I prefer a text filter that create a text
equivalent of a graphical page. 
Unless it solves not all accessibility problems, it solves a lot. 
It will help the disabled more on the short term than tools for adding alt
tags to images, because you have to ask webmasters to use these tools. I
know how much time it cost to contact all those webmasters.

I think the idea of a plug-in is a good idea. Is it also possible to add
plug-ins to browsers like Lynx and Net-Tamer?

Regards Peter Verhoeven

At 20:37 25-10-98 -0800, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>Hello,
>I remember that Adobe Systems has created an accessibility plug-in for
>their Acrobat reader. It was a self-executable file that after
>extraction was detected by the main program and appropriate changes
>were implemented to the menus of the program and other components. If
>a similar accesibility plug-in could be writen for each of teh
>browsers and be installed on a person's computer, we could eliminate a
>need for additional tags.
>See what you all have to say,
>Best regards,
>Victor
>
>
>
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>---Peter Verhoeven <pav@oce.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>> 
>> At 13:26 21-10-98 +0200, Daniel Dardailler wrote:
>> >
>> >> If it is possible to create a text-only filter I prefer such a
>filter. But
>> >> I think it is NOT possible.
>> >
>> >Peter, compare what's in 
>> >   http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/text-equiv
>> >and what current browser do and you'll understand that a text-only
>> >tool can be a reality, albeit not a solve-all solution.
>> 
>> Yes, I understand you are right! 
>> I only miss the HTML generated by CGI scripts. 
>> But for a lot of websites this will work. 
>> 
>> Regards Peter Verhoeven
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
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Received on Monday, 26 October 1998 06:41:17 UTC