- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:20:23 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sure you could use longdesc for that. Or you could embed SVG directly - it can be done to transform reasonably nicely and include a link to the image for a browser only capable of handling it via a plugin/helper, like IE and Lynx. It is an open issue I think whether it is good to use longdesc for something that isn't HTML as a tatrget. There has already been work done on this - RDFViz, the text-only SVG browser written last year, etc. Cheers Charles McCN On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote: I'm not sure if this has already come up, but a decent thing to require if text-in-images is used is that there be some pointer to a vector based alternative. Sometimes it is difficult to convey the same semantics from pictures to text, but if there were a slightly more accessible version of that image, it would be a help. I thought of this as I was preparing to draw yet another node and arc diagram for EARL, and realised how difficult it would be for a complex graph to put into words. Using SVG for this would be brilliant. Could you use longdesc for that, and then embed the SVG into the longdesc page? -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . [ :name "Sean B. Palmer" ] :hasHomepage <http://infomesh.net/sbp/> . -- 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: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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