- From: Wendy A Chisholm <chisholm@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:57:10 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
How about a guideline in the first section, Style and Structure that incorporates the last guideline of the Images and Image map section that currently reads: Recommended Avoid ASCII art. Replace it with an image and alternative text. Common typographic characters or constructions to be avoided are emoticons and arrows consisting of dashes and greater than signs (e.g., -->), etc. to say something like, Recommended Avoid ASCII art and non-letter characters within words. * Replace ASCII art with an image and alternative text. * Replace common typographic characters or constructionswith appropriate language. For example, <wink> for the emoticon ;-), "therefore" for arrows consisting of dashes and greater than signs (e.g., -->), and "great" for "gr8." * Remove spaces within titles (e.g., O U R C A F E); use style sheets to control letter spacing. This is recommended because the current recommendation regarding ASCII art is recommended. Should the rating be reevaluated if we include new information? Do these things make a page unusable for a person with a disability? Is it appropriate to lump all of these together or should they be separate guidelines? --wendy At 10:40 PM 4/15/98 , Daniel Dardailler wrote: > >I've seen that elsewhere. > >This is a good first class guideline, not just a tip I think, >and there is a CSS property we can mention (letter-spacing). > >> We may want to add a tip telling folks not to write their >> page headers like this: >> >> O L Y M P I C S >> >> The NBC had this all over their site during the Olympics >> coverage and were very surprized when I protested-- >> they made some poor hapless human type in all those spaces >> because they wanted it to stand out. >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> --raman >> >> Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-129) >> Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 >> (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com >> San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu >> http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) >> http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken >> as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. >> ____________________________________________________________ >
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