- From: Harry Woodrow <harrry@email.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:08:59 +0800
- To: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I think it is import to acknowledge that any description is not the work of the author of the strip. Harry Woodrow -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of David Woolley Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 4:13 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Blind Users and Web Comics Patrick Burke wrote: > the political point that it makes, which can be stated pretty well with > words). Clearly the pure text version does not replace the original > work, just as a book of art criticism does not rplace the works it If you make the meaning of a political cartoon explicit, you may well get sued for libel (or, in some countries, or at some times, thown in jail). I think one of the reasons why political cartoons developed was that they allowed people to make comments that they could not safely have made in explicit form. (Note that the BBC morning paper reviews sometimes describe such cartoons, but only in terms of the image, not its meaning.)
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