- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:21:23 +0000
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Chaals if we lay aside transparency can we agree that: the profile or outline of an image is helpful for identification, and that therefore rectilinear outlines should be avoided where possible? As far as transparency, it is preferable as 'else' one gets artificial rectilinear boxes, which maintain an author controlled background, which may not suit the user. it is true that in many instances the user may choose an inappropriate BG, however the author is in no position to decide what is suitable.... (to say: "If these help recognisability, commercial web sites will do it anyway;" as David does(in IG thread) is not that helpful, we may as well give up writing guidelines on this basis.... all this supposed freedom of SVG, flash, whatever means that we need more guidelines... where are they? come to that where are those CSS accessibility style sheets? did you consider that text box that resizes itself as you write? have you seen it anywhere, this would be an example of a site usefully transforming to suit the user, a rare commodity indeed :-0 thanks Jonathan
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