- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:42:43 +0200
- To: Paul Adelson <paul.adelson@citicorp.com>
- cc: Wendy A Chisholm <chisholm@trace.wisc.edu>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Thanks Paul for this information. What this survey tells me is that we need to be *very* specific about the one thing that we - experts of HTML accessibility - take for granted: TEXT IS ACCESSIBLE. Most people do not understand that information that is available in textual form (i.e. as a string of characters) can be presented to the user visually, aurally or in braille without additional development cost for the author. Of course we need to explain the idea of separating presentation from structure/content and the need for adding textual description to "richer" media like image, video, etc, but the number one rule must be stated clearly: Text is King.
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