- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:10:11 +1000 (EST)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I agree with Jason, that at present the basic requirement for information to be rendered by the variety of media available is that it be available in a textual form. This allows for various kinds of markup, and that which is most frequently used (and useful) is structural markup and the hypertextual markup of HTML - linking pieces of information together in a multi-dimensional way, rather than as a linear object. It is important to recognise, however, that text itself is not suitable for everyone, and some users will find plain text documents very difficult to deal with, while they have no problem with information presented through fairly complex visual or aural representations. I feel that the guidelines could state this more explicitly in the abstract, but I am happy with them 'as is'. Charles McCN
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