- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:46:37 -0000
- To: "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
"Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org> : > Yes, images and multimedia illustrations are alternative content, just as > text alternatives are. It is important that users can get rid of them. The distinction is that images are often the best way of me understanding something (photographs/illustrations/ graphs (in their "statistical" type) are all much more useful than prose, but illustrations to ideas which are represented clearly and "best" in text do a lot to confuse me, there needs to be distinction (in my mind) between those images which are content and those which are alternative content. I get much out of a photograph of the city I'm visiting, but get confused by images which try to illustrate what is already well represented in text. Especially when the ideas are more technical which is my main use of the web. > This is recognised by the User Agent accessibility guidelines, which provide > checkpoints requiring just that. I have my own browser which is well set up for my uses, what I'm asking for is clarification of how you provide these illustrations in a manner which I can easily remove this alternative content, whilst leaving images which aren't alternative content. Jim.
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