- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <emmanuelle@teleline.es>
- cc: WAI WCAG Group <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, WAI Cross-group list <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Cross-posted to xtech - please do not follow this up on wcag list, and remove it from the cc list. xtech is publicly archived at http://www.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech Yep. So here is an attempt: non-text (an adjective, as in "non-text element") Something that doesn't rely on writing to communicate its content. Normally, a picture, some sound, a movie, and so on. Note that this usualyl referes to writing as characters output by the computer. A picture of some writing, that is intended to be read, is both a non-text element (in that it does not produce letters or words that the computer renders) so it needs a text equivalent for many users, and a text element in that it relies on written words rather than communicating graphically. (in other words it is the worst of all solutions, but I don't think that goes in a definition) cheers Charles On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo wrote: As for the " non-text " definition, I believe that it deserves to be edited again because, at least in Spanish, a definition should not contain the defined term.
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