Re: First Stab at Set of Principles for 'Minimum Conformance'

"Anne Pemberton":
>          If you can test for aalt text, you can also test for the
graphic
> the alt text applies to. That is all the testing that is needed to
insure
> that images are provided ...

If you can provide an algorithm to test for this I'll gladly implement
it, I don't believe you can, there's no way to test that the
illustrations apply to the text, even in the most well structured HTML

>          It is no more difficult to collect a set of images that speak
> across cultural lines than it is to collect a set of words that speak
> across cultural lines .... We cannot hold images to a higher standard
than
> we do words.

I completely disagree, the English Language even in its most diverse has
a large common subset that is understood by nearly all speakers
especially in conjunction with a dictionary.  The same is not at all true
for symbols which have different meanings to different cultures.

>          So it is both easy to include images and trivially easy to
test
> for their presence.

Their presence yes, but that's meaningless, almost all w3.org pages have
an image on them, yet they aren't illustrated, you can't say that this is
trivial to test fro, without some proposal of how that test is to be
done - You've obviously already thought of this or you wouldn't say it
was trivial - please explain your methodology.

> But the most important reason to include these is that
> perhaps the largest numbers of disabled folks will be affected by the
> inclusion or omission of these guidelines.

The idea for minimum conformance is about testability and examples, this
I don't believe is available for illustration of content, I'll be happy
to be proved wrong, but some practical suggestions of how to do that, and
some real world examples are needed first.

Jim.

Received on Thursday, 25 October 2001 05:05:39 UTC