RE: Text in buttons - a solution and proposal. (Everybody happy?)

This looks good to me. Also makes the sentence easier to read and
understand.   But let's drop the capital letters.  I just put those in to
show where words had been added.
Lisa suggestion then looks like

3.1	When an appropriate markup language exists and will work, use markup
rather than images to convey information to allow text scalability.
[Priority 2]   For example, use SVG for line art, MathML to mark up
mathematical equations, and CSS for text-oriented special effects. You may
use text in images, when the text has a primarily graphical function, if the
effect cannot be achieved with markup, (as in the case of some for logos and
limited accent elements) provided that you provide a textual equivalent to
the content contained in the image.


Adding condition clauses like "when something is true then etc.",  always
makes automatic testers harder..... but if we don't put them in,  then the
checkpoints are not practical.

Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't try to work harder on tools to make the
pages accessible no matter what they look like........

Having so many legacy browsers makes it almost impossible to design a page
which will look right these days.

Gregg

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Sent:	Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:12 AM
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Subject:	Text in buttons - a solution and proposal. (Everybody happy?)

OK, I would like to propose a compromise position.

Lets change Greg's draft to :

"You may use text in images, when the text  has a primarily graphical
function, if ..."

instead of :

"You may use text in images when the text does not convey its literal
meaning, but has a more graphical function, if".


This will address the concern that a designer making a show case site will
be restricted.

Further if a designer places redundant textual links, then the main function
of the graphical link becomes its look. I.E. the primary function is now
graphical.

However I _can_ not_ make a bitmap of all my BILI text and use that in place
text - which was my main concern.

Are there any problems with this?


The revised proposal is now:

3.1 When an appropriate markup language exists AND WILL WORK, use markup
rather than images to convey information TO ALLOW TEXT SCALABILITY.
[Priority 2]   For example, use SVG for line art, MathML to mark up
mathematical equations, and CSS for text-oriented special effects. You may
use text in images, when the text has a primarily graphical function, if the
effect cannot be achieved with markup,
(as in the case of some for logos and limited accent elements) provided that
you provide a textual equivalent to the content contained in the image.

Received on Sunday, 29 October 2000 15:46:29 UTC