- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:51:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- cc: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
There is a possible approach based on using a classification scheme. This has been done by people at the ILRT (I don't know what it stands for) at the University of Bristol for words, and sort of for medical images - the techniques would work. But it requires a fair bit of leg work, some technical understanding, and developing some tools a bit more. Cheers Charles On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Paul Davis wrote: Dave, I quote: If one is going to use graphics to help people who cannot handle words, one needs a standard set of graphics across web sites (ideally across browsers as well). This happens to a large extent with physical products. Now I may be speaking out of turn, and I have no conformation of this what so ever. But an alleged rumor whispered in my ear a few months back is Brookes University is working on this as we speak, if so then Gatesy could be paying for the research (speculation) If this alleged rumor is correct then it will (could, may, possibly) appear in a later version of explorer (ie6 or 7 perhaps? again pure speculation and rumor) If this does happen then by default a standard will be set. Is there enough ambiguity in this email to avoid writs? If not, I plead insanity now. Thanks, by the way for the constructive comments. Very valuable. Paul Davis www.ten-20.com The UK portal site for disabled people and associated professionals. -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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