- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:28:01 -0500
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, WAI ER group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Kynn and William, Could you please take this thread off the UA list. Thank you Jon At 03:43 PM 9/27/2000 -0700, William Loughborough wrote: >At 02:50 PM 9/27/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >>I think you may have missed _my_ point... > >Nope. Everyone's missing the "point" - there is no such entity as "image >text". When an image is made of <em><strong>anything </em></strong>it >becomes "image" and must endure the same requirements whether it is an >image of text or an image showing apples vs. oranges. It requires a >textual equivalent. > >KB:: "I don't think anyone is claiming it's not, so I'm not sure you need >to make this point so forcefully. :)" > >WL: The reason I'm sure that I do need to make the point "forcefully" is >that somehow it has been allowed to slip by that images of text are a >special case of images. They are not. IMO this also goes for PDF. The >clear purpose of the guidelines applicable to this entire genre is that if >there's any semantics in there it must be teased out. If not, then... > >-- >Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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