- From: Chuck Hitchcock <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:39:40 -0400
- To: "Marja-Riitta Koivunen" <marja@w3.org>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, "Jason White" <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Cc: "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
This looks like a good starting point for improving the likelihood that a greater number of individuals will obtain meaning from images and visual layout. I especially like the "whole to part" suggestion although we will also need to consider the needs of those who must construct their own "whole from the parts" along with those who must extract the "parts from the whole" in order to make information meaningful. That's why this CD stuff can be so difficult. One persons support can become another's barrier. With regard to more in-depth use of images to convey meaning, I know of no better source than that works of Edward R. Tufte. His works from Grpahics Press are: 1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2. Envisioning Information 3. Visual Explanations If anyone has the time and inclination to dig deeply into this topic, these are useful resources. Chuck __________________________________ Chuck Hitchcock Chief Education Technology Officer, and Director, National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum, CAST, Inc., 39 Cross Street, Peabody, MA 01960 Email chitchcock@cast.org Voice +1 978-531-8555 x233 TTY +1 978-531-3110 Fax +1 978-531-0192 <http://cast.org/> <http://cast.org/bobby/>
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