- From: Audrey J. Gorman <agorman@megsinet.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:36:48 -0600
- To: "'David Poehlman'" <poehlman1@home.com>, "kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com" <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: "kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com" <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com>, Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>, "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The word "image" does not convey anything about the intellectual content of the graphic thing that sits there. In other words, if you can't see the image because of blindness or older hardware or software, "image" tells you nothing useful. Audrey Gorman Access for All agorman@megsinet.net -----Original Message----- From: David Poehlman [SMTP:poehlman1@home.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:55 AM To: kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com Cc: kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com; Ineke van der Maat; Charles F. Munat; Charles McCathieNevile; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: img alt text, links and titles we're getting a bit off topic here so back to the context of alt text for an image, the words that are nouns for the things that they are naming have no place. ----- Original Message ----- From: <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com> Cc: <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com>; "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>; "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>; "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: img alt text, links and titles David Poehlman wrote: > let's put this another way. an alternative is an alternative > representatation. the word image does not stand for anything and you > must have written this particular speck that you point to because it > isn't anywhere else. Why do you say the word "image" does not stand for anything? How exactly are you able to say this with such certainty in all situations which may possibly arise? --Kynn
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