- From: inx <inx@ryoma.i-kochi.or.jp>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 07:34:50 +0000
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
DL: Hello, I'm new here. My name is Davey Leslie, I'm in Japan. Anyway... > RD:: "I maintain it's better to have too much information than not > enough..." DL: Ah, hmm, well... I'm trying to figure this out, because it's clearly important, but I go round and round on this issue. When sighted people view a graphic layout, there are subtle visual cues that let us know "oh, this is important; this is not." Our eyes do not move in a linear fashion, but instead, scan the page and pick out the useful bits quickly. As designers, we use this fact to our advantage-- perhaps it's even one of our main tools. But then we come to the aural user. If we include a paragraph of description for each and every graphic, aren't we warping the relationships between the different bits of information, and, in effect, challenging the aural user to wade through the swamp of information and pick out the useful bits? Isn't there a point of information overload? Isn't a "clean" text-only page better? Is a wall of information really better? I really don't know. (And then I start to wonder, "hmm.. what would be a really cool aural page?") -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ inx: english by design inx@ryoma.i-kochi.or.jp TEL (0888) 44-0352 FAX (0888) 44-6251 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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