- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: 'Andy Heath' <a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
All common image formats allow you to include metadata. All Adobe software now uses this to put RDF into the stuff they produce. The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines group was suggesting this as a good approach 5 years ago - and discussin issues such as how to deal with the fact that an appropriate alt text might vary according to the context in which the image is used. Tool makers have long ago started implementing this stuff, to varying extents. It turns out that Dublin Core metadata is just one kind, and not always the most important. Cheers Chaals On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >PNG files allow this internally to some extent don't they? > > >Gregg > > -- ------------------------------ >Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. >Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. >Director - Trace R & D Center >University of Wisconsin-Madison > > >-----Original Message----- >From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf >Of Andy Heath >Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:09 AM >To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org >Subject: Re: Access Key alternative -in the wrong place? > > > >> Now why can't we attach DC metadata title and description onto all >> image files in place of filling in an alt and longdesc when ever the >> images are used. (alt can override the meta title if the web author is >> using an image/media in a different way to how the graphic artist >> anticipated the image being used) >> >> That is why we need to design accessibility solutions from an >> architectural level, and not from the html content symptom solving thing > >I agree. An over-arching architectural framework is required >otherwise its just ramdom wandering in a very large search space. >Nodes first then leaves. > >andy > >-- >andy >_______________________________________________ >Andy Heath >a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk > > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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