- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Lois, the relevant group is teh WAI User Agent Accessibility Guidelines group http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU and they recognise requirements such as this in their guidelines which have just entered "last call" - http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10 - you might like to review that (rather large) document. It is about how to make browsers, and other user agents such as multimedia plugins, accessible. cheers Charles McCN On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Lois Wakeman wrote: Not sure if you are the right person to ask, but is there any work being done in the CSS or WAI WGs about this? By default, the ALT text displayed while an image is loading is pretty small in most browsers, and it occurs to me that either by giving a guideline for user agents, or by defining a CSS pseudo-class on IMG (and perhaps one for tooltip-style descriptions), it would be possible to allow page authors to make pages more accessible. I realise that assistive technology doesn't require human-readable text, but it would improve things a lot for those people with less-than-perfect acuity, who do not need the page to be read to them. Kind regards, Lois Wakeman ------------------------------------------------------ http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com ------------------------------------------------------ -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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