- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:27:42 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> I like the direction here. But we need to handle > > 1- content includes structure so the word "content" is problematic here. There is lots of unstructured content, like plain text (though structure can be inferred there, as I have explained to this list before) and the Working Group's eternal bugbear, images. Images have and are content, you know. > 2- ascii (or Unicode) art. That's such an extraordinarily rare edge case that I wonder if those who keep bringing it up are living in 1997. ASCII art needs, at minimum, a skip link. > Some believe structure is not information - others worry that if you > remove structure from, say, a table, its meaning changes. That would > indicate that you removed information necessary to understanding of the > content. It may be information about information but it has semantic > content. To a user agent, yeah. > * non-text information - information that is not represented by a Unicode > character or linear presentation of Unicode characters Oh? What about a picture of text? Banning those is a non-starter. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/> --This. --What's wrong with top-posting?
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