- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:21:16 -0800
- To: <seeman@netvision.net.il>, "'Ian Jacobs'" <ij@w3.org>, "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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...
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
Received on Monday, 30 October 2000 08:19:49 UTC