- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:31:27 -0400
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, WAI ER group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
The thread continues on wai-ig under title Subject: Comments from WiseWomen Mailing List on Textual Graphics Len At 06:28 PM 9/27/00 -0500, Jon Gunderson wrote: >Kynn and William, >Could you please take this thread off the UA list. > >Thank you >Jon > > >At 03:43 PM 9/27/2000 -0700, William Loughborough wrote: >>At 02:50 PM 9/27/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >>>I think you may have missed _my_ point... >> >>Nope. Everyone's missing the "point" - there is no such entity as "image >>text". When an image is made of <em><strong>anything </em></strong>it >>becomes "image" and must endure the same requirements whether it is an >>image of text or an image showing apples vs. oranges. It requires a >>textual equivalent. >> >>KB:: "I don't think anyone is claiming it's not, so I'm not sure you >>need to make this point so forcefully. :)" >> >>WL: The reason I'm sure that I do need to make the point "forcefully" is >>that somehow it has been allowed to slip by that images of text are a >>special case of images. They are not. IMO this also goes for PDF. The >>clear purpose of the guidelines applicable to this entire genre is that >>if there's any semantics in there it must be teased out. If not, then... >> >>-- >>Love. >> ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > >Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP >Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology >Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services >MC-574 >College of Applied Life Studies >University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign >1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 > >Voice: (217) 244-5870 >Fax: (217) 333-0248 > >E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu > >WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund >WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua > > -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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