- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:37:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Rich Caloggero <rich@accessexpressed.net>
- cc: "'wai list'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Using Scalable Vector Graphics it becomes trivially easy to include substantial amounts of alternative information in a picture. In fact this is also possible using PNG format, and even GIF (please note that there are several licensing requirements for using GIFs) or jpeg can carry textual information, although user agents almost always ignore it and only a few authoring tools implement it properly at the moment. Charles McCN On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Rich Caloggero wrote: Has anyone seen/used this? Looks like a great thing for those with usable vision. For those of us without, oh well, too bad! Seems to me that the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" needs to be updated for the information age -- "a picture is worth a million words". Even if information gathering intelligent software agents existed which could digest and "understand" the glut of information out there, how can blind people ever get a "picture" of it? Rich companyname: Cartia email: david@cartia.com state: CA city: Oxnard Request: Cartia has developed a unique interface to large collections of information. Our clients are primarily Fortune 1000 corporations. The browser-based interface can be used at www.newsmaps.com and a more general description of our company and product, called ThemeScape, can be found at www.cartia.com. --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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