- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:31:01 -0700
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, WAI ER group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
At 12:08 PM 9/26/2000 , Jon Gunderson wrote: >Not all people with disabilities use magnifiers and assistive technology. Agreed. We disagree on whether or not this is the job of the web designer to fix. Not all people who are completely blind use screenreaders or braille terminals. > The main issues from a user agent perspective on images with text used for buttons are: >1. The user cannot configure the user agent to change the size of the text ...because the browsers don't provide this level of functionality. The content of the image is accessible (through an ALT tag); the user agent simply is not set up to give this information to the user in a way it may be manipulated. >2. The user cannot configure the user agent to change the color of the text You realize that most web designers don't necessarily want the user to be able to change the color the text? :) [I am bracing myself for another round of "the designer's wants/needs are worthless."] >3. The user should be able to configure the user agent to turn images off, and the resize and change the color of the text equivalent for the image. That's what I'm suggesting right there. >Resources designed in this way will force some users to turn off images for access to the content. That's not necessarily a bad thing. (I'm not saying it's a _good_ thing, but I also believe that a flat priority 2 ban on textual images is a crazy idea.) -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Accessibility Roundtable Web Broadcast http://kynn.com/+on24 What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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