- From: Geoff Freed <Geoff_Freed@wgbh.org>
- Date: 3 Nov 1997 12:29:41 -0500
- To: "Chuck Letourneau" <cpl@starlingweb.com>, "Mike Paciello" <paciello@yuri.org>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Reply to: RE>>ALT-attribute usage (fwd) I also agree with Chuck (and Mike)-- I think "item" is clearer than "bullet". For the record, I normally use outSPOKEN for the Mac, and it gives longer pauses for commas, not colons. Thus, ALT="Item, " sounds better on my machine than ALT="Item: ". geoff freed CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media -------------------------------------- Date: 11/3/97 12:10 PM To: Geoff Freed From: Mike Paciello I agree with Chuck. In fact, this is exactly what I stated in my last two workshops. Everyone agreed and felt this provided a more accurate description of the entity. - Mike At 10:55 AM 11/3/97 -0500, Chuck Letourneau wrote: >Last week, Gregg wrote: >> >>4) Recommend use of Alt = "bullet, " (comma and space important to provide >>pause) >> - gets us back to providing a short audible cue between items to separate >>them and identify them as being items in a list. >> - works on all browsers today >> - gives the audible equivalent of a visual bullet >> - allows variation if there are different bullet images (in which case the >>meaning of the different bullets should be substituted. >> - is annoying to hear if you already know for sure that it is a list item >> >>>From this listing it would appear that "bullet" would be the proper >>approach. > >Since "bullet" essentially means "item" (or new item, or next item), and >"item" does not denote any hierarchical value (as does a numbered list), >then the use of ALT="Item: " to describe the function of a bullet seems >appropriate to me. "Item" avoids the pain mentioned by Len in a product >list, telling people to order that strange "bullet, train" which is really >"Item: train". Also, doesn't the colon-space give a slightly better pause >than a comma-space? > >Chuck Letourneau > > > ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by wgbh.org with ADMIN;3 Nov 1997 12:00:41 -0500 Received: by www19.w3.org (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA21632; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 11:48:43 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 11:48:43 -0500 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <199711031648.LAA21632@www19.w3.org> Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971103114350.008b5340@ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: paciello@ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 11:43:52 -0500 To: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org From: Mike Paciello <paciello@yuri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: ALT-attribute usage (fwd) Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org X-Mailing-List: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> archive/latest/168 X-Loop: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Sender: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org Resent-Sender: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org Precedence: list
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