Re: Please review for this week's call: proposal and process for the "text in images" thread

Question:

For (those rarely found) pages where extensive use of images of text is 
justified (e.g. pages that are fundamentally artistic), can the author get 
a double or triple A rating by linking to double or triple A compliant 
page?   I'm not sure how WCAG 11.4  ("after best efforts, you cannot create 
an accessible page, provide a link to an alternative page ...") 
since  since its condition is "accessible page" with no mention of 
priority.  Also the guideline is itself priority 1... it's confusing to 
apply it to priority 2 requirements.

If this isn't available as a general escape hatch, we need to build it into 
3.1.

Len


There are some pages, e.g. http://www.rivertrout.com/main.html , that are 
fundamentally artistic,where CSS text would spoil


At 03:17 PM 10/25/00 -0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
>Please:
>review this entire message.
>
>Please:
>Do not respond to this message unless you have new information that has 
>not been presented yet.  There has been quite a lot of traffic on this 
>thread and I have been very pleased to see people sending considerate, 
>thoughtful messages.  I am glad to see how much information has been 
>collected in the last couple of weeks.  However, Jason and I believe we 
>are ready to wrap up this discussion.
>
>Therefore, I propose:
>
><blockquote> 3.1 Use markup rather than images to convey information. 
>[Priority 2]  This checkpoint is strongly tied to checkpoint 11.1.
>Note: Until style and graphic markup languages are more common, minimize 
>the use of text in images.  For example, use HTML text styled with CSS. 
>Choose common fonts (such as Arial and Times) that can be rendered using 
>CSS. You may use text in images for logos and limited accent elements 
>where specialized fonts and text treatments are required and cannot be 
>achieved with CSS.
></blockquote>
>
>Thank you Cynthia for the bulk of the wording for this proposal.
>
>Process for Thursday's telecon:
>Jason and I  have decided to give each person one minute to speak on this 
>proposal.  We will then take the information gathered and figure out where 
>to go from there.  If possible, we would like to close this at the 
>call.  However, this is not a formal vote on this proposal, but a chance 
>to hear each person speak for one minute (and I will be timing!!).  If you 
>are unable to make the call, please send a 2 sentence statement to me by 
>2:00 Eastern U.S. time (i.e. I must receive it no later than 2 hours 
>before the working group call) and I will make sure it is represented 
>during the call.
>
>Thank you,
>--wendy
>--
>wendy a chisholm
>world wide web consortium
>web accessibility initiative
>madison, wi usa
>tel: +1 608 663 6346
>/--
>

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