RE: wave file as alt tag?

As long as you remember that deaf-blind and certain other conditions require
the alt text as text to read.

David.
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Accessibility Program Manager: Multimedia, Telecommunications
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kynn Bartlett [mailto:kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com] 
Sent:	Sunday, May 16, 1999 12:36 PM
To:	poehlman@clark.net
Cc:	w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject:	Re: wave file as alt tag?

David wrote:
> Suppose you could capture the sound of an image say a bullet or a
> picture of a tea kettle and put that sound in a wave file?  Suppose
> further that you could then identify that sound once and then let it
> stand for its self due to its uniqueness?  would it be appropriate to
> use it as an alt tag considering that some actually many people will
> not hear it but for those who can process and hear it, it would render
> well and uniquely?

You could use CSS to make this an aural icon or use OBJECT
to make it an aural "alt" text.

--Kynn

Received on Sunday, 16 May 1999 21:15:40 UTC