RE: General Exception for Essential Purpose

At 08:15 AM 10/30/00 +0200, Lisa Seeman wrote:
>Now try finding a kosher, gluten free, diabetic cookbook.

It's in the same section as the "reality sandwich". The guidelines are 
guidelines.

The "principle" is: don't make text into images. All the explaining in the 
world is important to wrestle with and reveal but the underlying principle 
is still: just say "no" to 'image-text'. Will there be 
exceptions/variants/ignorance - yep. Will the guideline change: see below! 
Even if you grant forgiveness to someone who takes a life defending her 
own, killing remains a "thou shalt not" and even if Coca-Cola will always 
be in a proprietary font included in an image the principle remains: no 
*raster* images of text (aha! the addition of "raster" shows a change on 
the horizon).

The principle gets modified when a new concept of "image" forthcomes. Our 
firmness isn't after all intransigence. We leapt on CSS and now will leap 
on SVG. Sure it will take time to "fully" implement but...

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Love.
                 ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE

Received on Monday, 30 October 2000 08:19:49 UTC