- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:15:36 -0400
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- CC: David Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Anne! in your message, you state in part: "a person can always leave a site if they don't like it". This could be turned around as well. one of the problems we have with heavy graphics as you proppose is that they are load heavy and the books on good web building practices all notably frown on this. Perhaps one or two don't but I can't read them because they are loaded with pictures. It does not matter that you put alt tages in word iconics, if people are sharing the pc and a person who needs text does not have it because the alternate in this case is the graphic, than there is no access. Further, it was stated that the problem with most sites that are using them is that they don't standardize. it is true as has been stated here before that software uses standard iconics. This is good and was said to be so. I fail to see though how a person will cope who approaches things from a purely graphical or iconic point of view when the pc crashes and the only route to recover is through textual means is is often the case. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s mailto:david.h.poehlman@verizon.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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