- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:06:44 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Kynn, How academic an exercise do you want this be? Most descriptions I have come across (which includes the CAM stuff) is very short and functional -- this include descriptive video. Now, a static web page does not have real time constraints, but aren't most of your friends and colleagues (including those who happen to have vision impairments) interested in why YOU took a particular photo, who is in it, and what were your impressions at the time? Seems to me, only the photographer can answer these questions! Take a look at the ultrasounds I posted for MY friends and relatives. I got good feedback from my friends who are blind, and much to my surprise (I should have predicted this, but I didn't), family who were sighted liked the descriptions too! (They appreciate the help with knowing what they were looking at.) I latter learned that most people did not realize that the ONLY reason I bothered with descriptions (of course I would have included ALT text) was for the benefit of my blind friends! (This also proved to me that _I_ am still learning lessons about the importance of universal access.) Photos can be found at URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/bbailey/baby-21apr99.html A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it is nice if someone tells you -- Just what the Hell is that? -- Bruce Bailey Kynn Bartlett wrote: > Accurately describing picture content is necessary for accessibility > considerations, especially LONGDESC/D-Link. However, giving good > and useful picture descriptions is not as easy as it sounds; there > is a certain art to it, and you can improve with practice. > > I recently went on a trip to Rome to speak at the E-Commerce > Summit (http://www.e-commerce-summit.com/) and the day before > the summit started, I went on a commercial tour of Rome and took > many pictures of what I was seeing. I would like to make these > available on the web, and, as a practice exercise, I'd like to see > if anyone (who can see my pictures) would be interested in helping > to describe these pictures or at least evaluating the descriptions > that I or someone else has provided.
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