- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:16:43 +1000 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Writing individually and not as co-chair, I would argue that text must be provided in an encoding which can be transliterated by the software into whatever may be required by a particular output device. Thus if an output device or, more precisely, the software underlying it, requires Unicode then this should be obtainable from the file format, via conversion if necessary. Obviously in file formats which support it, one can readily define any arbitrary font with whatever altogether non-standard character encoding one chooses; but unless there is a mapping provided between this and a character set supported by the output software the text will be inaccessible to that extent. For concreteness I would argue that a conversion to Unicode would be a suitable criterion, although obviously the requirement can be framed in more general terms as already outlined.
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