- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:07:17 +1000 (EST)
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On Tue, 11 May 2004, John M Slatin wrote: > > 1. Text shown over a background can be removed from the background and > read separately. > > </proposed> This is good, subject to your comment below, of course. > > > > Comment: > > In the end, though, I think this is a special case of a more general > consideration: that all content meant to be read by humans should be > provided as electronic text (not as an image of text). I don't think we > actually say this anywhere-- the closest we come is in the definition of > non-text content, which includes "text that cannot be rpresented as > unicode." > I agree. Guideline 1.1 should satisfy this, and if that is unclear it should be clarified. We still need a success criterion at level 2 saying that adequate contrast is provided (i.e., in author-defined presentations/styles), thereby achieving what has sometimes been called a more "direct" form of access.
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