- From: Adam Victor Reed <areed2@calstatela.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:08:14 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I have an attention deficit, so I often use lynx to avoid distractions. Alt text appears in place of graphics, so it merges with other text if not set off with punctuation. It is NOT accessible if it appears as 1. Markup tools icon one Markup tools icon two Markup tools icon three Markup Editing Tools: Tools that assist authors to produce markup documents. These include text-based and WYSIWYG markup Instead of alt="Markup tools icon one", could we please have alt=" [Markup tools](icon one) " now, and just alt=" [Markup tools] " when used as an actual icon in the future? (Yes, I'm willing to write a techniques document on writing accessible alt text.) As for the icons themselves, I think literal images of traditional tools (icon 2 (pen on pad) for markup and content, icon 1 (camera) for multimedia creation, icon 3 (programmers terminal) for programming) are more accessible (especially for readers with cognitive deficits) than abstract metaphors (such as pen-on-film, something never seen in reality but shown in icon 2 for multimedia; or the abstract schematics in icon 1 for content and programming). -- Adam Reed areed2@calstatela.edu Context matters. Seldom does *anything* have only one cause.
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