- From: Kathy Seven Williams <kseven@utah-inter.net>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 19:01:53 -0600
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 08:41 PM 5/4/98 -0400, Liam Quinn wrote: >At 06:24 PM 04/05/98 -0600, Kathy Seven Williams wrote: >>I hate being forced to go to a text only version of a web site just so I >>can avoid Java buttons and be able to navigate. > >LQ:: You shouldn't have to. With seamless accessibility, all you do is >disable Java and you're left with a usable alternative (as the content of >the APPLET element). If I disable JAVA in some places I must be I am then told to go away and get a browser that is JAVA capable. Now I realize that in the best of all possible worlds when all is right with access this won't be the case but for now, it is, too often, and so i must go text only as the version provided for me to access. > >KSW:: >>I resent being shoved >>off to the text only interpretation where it is then determined that since >>I'm using text only I certainly have no interest in the graphics and >>therefore I am told by an alt tag that an image is "A PICTURE," "logo," >>"image," or some other totally non-informative description. > >LQ:: With seamless accessibility, the ALT attribute provides a replacement >for the image, not a description of it. The TITLE attribute gives a title >for the image, typically in the form of a short description. Are you capitalizing seamless accessibility? I'm not sure what this term is meant to mean. I encounter ALT tags that say everything from IMAGE (that's informative) to "snowflakes". what I am saying is I'd rather it say snowflakes or family portrait rather than "picture" some do, some don't. I want to know if there are snowflakes even if i am supposedly just listening because I have been put into listening mode unwillingly. > K7 kseven@utah-inter.net http://home.utah-inter.net/kseven/
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