- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:06:43 -0500
- To: "Marti" <marti@agassa.com>, "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Marti, The main thing to remember is that if a site is well-illustrated (just as if text is well-written) the visual-graphic user will not be "guessing" ... Take for examples, a web site about cats. A text user will know what it's about by seeing the word "Cat" in the title ... the non-text user will learn the same by seeing a picture of a cat ... which cat, and what about the cat are in the text, and should be in the pictures. That's why the advice to stick to line drawings falls so short of the needs. Line drawings are great for "headings", but more detail is needed in the "paragraphs" and the more detailed and animated illustrations. A few weeks ago, I took my digital camera to school for a day and got shots of some of the children using the computers .... I needed help from the teachers and kids putting the right names to each photo, and one of the children, a twin, could only be identified by the fact that the photo was taken on Friday instead of Wednesday... I pulled the photo up on the screen yesterday, and asked the Wednesday twin to identify who was in the photo ... she pointed to a high spot on her sister's cheek and said there was a faint birthmark there that told her it was the Friday twin. The librarian looks for Internet sites that she can use in lieu of reading a story to the kids. All-text sites aren't useful - but sites that combine the words with good illustrations and animations, are very useful. There're not enough of them out there. Anne Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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