- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 22:04:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <Sofia.Celic@visionaustralia.org.au>
- cc: wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Sofia, this question was discussed at some length by the WCAG working group in late 2000. I believe that you are correctly interpreting the guidelines. Entry 8 in the errata pages - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WAI-WEBCONTENT-ERRATA deals with this question. Cheers Charles McCN On Thu, 2 May 2002 Sofia.Celic@visionaustralia.org.au wrote: Hi all, I've been pondering the issue of text within images and would like some opinions on the matter. If a website uses graphical images of text and does not provide any redundant text links, should the website fail compliance at P2? My reason for thinking this is that text within images is not sizeable (in the traditional sense of being able to increase the font size in a browser) and so would be equivalent to using a fixed font size - which would fail checkpoint 3.4 (Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values) at P2. Am I being too pedantic in wanting to fail a website for Double A conformance for this reason? Thanks in advance, Sofia ____________________________ Sofia Celic Internet Development Consultant Vision Australia Foundation 454 Glenferrie Road Kooyong, Victoria, 3144 Ph: 613 9864 9284 Fax: 613 9864 9210 E-mail: Sofia.Celic@visionaustralia.org.au Web site: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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