Re: the text in images issue

I think SVG does now have widespread commercial tools since the Adobe
ilistrates and the viewer is avialible for free download.
The download is quick and painless, so it seems to be more a question of
public awerness of these new tecnologies.

I think the argument that we should aviode recomending somthing, that has
commersial builing and a viewing tool, just because it is not widly used,
falles a bit flat.

Afterall the WAI is about recomending difrent ways of doing things, that are
morte accesible. If we were only to recomend what peaple are already doing -
well need I say more.

>SVG doesn't even have that: no installed base, no widespread commercial
>tools, and none of the real-world experience WCAG has used to base its own
>guidelines/techniques/checkpoints upon. It's that experience that is the
>bread and butter of the checkpoints. Until that base of knowledge is there,
>I think a strategy of pushing it before it's supported really helps anyone.
>If we can't come up with anything better than an educated guess, nobody's
>going to be happy with the results, and that could decrease the perceived
>value of the guidelines as a whole.
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>matt
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Received on Tuesday, 19 December 2000 03:28:41 UTC