RE: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit

Yes

I think that is correct.  

The transport is irrelevant.  It is the form of the data when it is 'viewed'
or processed by the user agent. 
 
Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 


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Subject: RE: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit


I think this thread began as a discussion about how to define non-text
content for the purposes of WCAG 2.0. I think there was an unspoken
assumption that the problem has to do with non-text content as it is
rendered for users, rather than with the form in which such content is
transmitted.

Does that distinction make sense? Can we focus on a glossary definition that
will help developers and other readers of WCAG 2.0 understand when something
qualifies as non-text content (and is thus within the scope of Guideline
1.1)?

Thanks,
John

"Good design is accessible design."

Dr. John M. Slatin, Director
Accessibility Institute
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Richard Ishida wrote:
>> I cannot understand this.  Images and binary content are transferred 
>> as bytes, but not Unicode characters, surely.

Chris Ridpath wrote:
> Images and binary content are usually send as ASCII characters. Weird 
> eh?
> 
> Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the MIME standard: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

In MIME, yes. But this is Web Content Accessibility, not Email
Accessibility. However, there may be situations when binary data are stored
as characters, Base64 encoded, e.g. when using the data URL scheme.
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Johannes Koch
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