- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:55:01 -0700
- To: "Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, <wai-tech-comments@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
At 01:53 PM 9/15/01 +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >I don't agree with what al has to say on this.* - but will fight to the death for his right to say it? I am reminded of editorials written lamenting the disappearance of the old virtues contained in well-formed hand-written documents - but written by a person with an illegible hand using a word processor! The alt= "airplanes flying through Uncle Sam's legs" works for this audience at least as well as would the laboriously constructed political cartoon. And it could be readily repurposed with analogies about the underpinnings of the giant, etc. In fact that's what Jonathan did in lieu of making a drawing which would have required equal explanation. MOST graphics, in the context of the audience for our work, demand interpretation to a greater extent than much of our text. Else why don't we use hieroglyphics? All of which is an over-wordy say of siding with Al in maintaining that "The conventional .gif and .jpg representations used for images on the Web are not compatible with widely-deployed repurposing technology that does a reasonable job of recreating intelligibility the way that UniCode text is." [full stop] If that's what you disagree with, I think you need to re-examine your position. -- Love. EACH UN-INDEXED/ANNOTATED WEB POSTING WE MAKE IS TESTAMENT TO OUR HYPOCRISY
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