- From: Wendy A Chisholm <chisholm@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:46:12 -0500
- To: "John T. Whelan" <whelan@physics.utah.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 03:58 PM 9/9/98 -0600, you wrote: >Technique A.1.6 ><http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-techniques-19980908.html#avoid-ascii-art> >says: > >>However, if ascii art must be used, mark it up as such: >> >>Example. >> >><SPAN class="smile" title="smiley in ascii art">:-)</SPAN> >> >>End example. > > The problem is that there is no ALT attribute defined for SPAN >in the HTML4.0 spec, so this example violates guideline C.4.1. I >suppose a long-term solution for someone who wants to create ASCII art >for text users (for example if they can't or don't want to generate an >image) with alternate content for blind users would be something like > "title" is a valid attribute on SPAN. ><OBJECT DATA="cow.txt" TYPE="text/x-ascii-art" TITLE="drawing of a cow"> >Cow ></OBJECT> > yes, this is another interesting way to do this. >Recommendation A.2 ><http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH#A2> >Technique 1 says: > >> Until most browsers support "longdesc", also use d-links (or invisible >> d-links). [Priority 1] > > What's an invisible d-link? The Techiques document ><http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-techniques-19980908.html#img-dlink> >only defines a d-link, not an invisible one. > oops. we'll add a definition. thanks for your comments, --w
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