- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:15:55 -0400
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 11:55 AM 2000-07-17 +1000, Jason White wrote: > >This is essentially what Gregg suggested at the meeting. The difficult >aspect is that it applies not just to the whole of the content, but to >parts of it (for instance, if the auditory component of a multimedia >presentation is unavailable, one should provide captions instead of >offering, as the only alternative, a transcript of the entire >presentation, so that users can view the visual component while having >synchronized access to the captions). However, these subtleties can be >explained in the text and it may not, perhaps, be essential that they also >be made clear in the words of the principle itself. > Actually, minimizing the difference between the adapted experience and the nominal experience is yet another global principle in its own right. It is not a go/no-go principle, but it is something that the overall process does need to pay attention to. Al
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