- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Marti <marti47@MEDIAONE.NET>
- cc: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Marti, I strongly agree.
(the point in question is illustrating with multimedia as appropriate).
As Tim Noonan said recently, the key is redundancy. Not text specifically,
nor images specifically, nor audio, but redundancy.
Charles McCN
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Marti wrote:
Comments -
Can Principle 1, Guideline 1 be generalized a little more to be inclusive of
Principle 4 Guideline 8? This might get us away from the idea that the
guidelines insist on "all text" and meet some of the needs for cognitive
disabilities.
Perhaps:
Principle 1: Provide alternatives to auditory, visual and textual
presentations.
Guidelines
1. Provide a textual equivalent for every non-text (auditory or
graphical) component of a web page or multimedia presentation and
supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations where they
will facilitate comprehension of the content.
Regarding Checkpoint 2.2 from WCAG 1.0
Since "foreground and background color combinations" implies a device
(screen) shouldn't this be covered in technology-specific checklists?
Marti
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