- From: <kynn-eda@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:45:54 -0800 (PST)
- To: steve@juggler.net (Steve Carter)
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org (wai-ig list)
Steve writes: > One of our accessibility-course delegates has come up with something > that has me stumped at this stage: they want to represent greek letters > on their page. Why? To what end? That is the question you always need to start with. What is the purpose of these greek letters? > They currently use <FONT> to switch to the symbol font > to do this, and another delegate argues for Gifs with ALT text. My > views are: > 1) Font tags > Are wrong. They may be wrong, but why are they wrong? Would it be just as wrong to use <span> and CSS to set the font? > 2) gifs with ALT text: > Do not scale, but better for screen readers and older browsers What ALT text would you use for the greek letters? > 3) use a <SPAN> with locale change to greek > don't know if this would work, possibly more correct. not sure about > how most browsers will receive it. Locale change? Do you mean language change? > 4) Character entities : > Probably purest way, probably inaccessible to screen readers and older > browsers Do you only have to do it one way? > Does anybody have a view on this? or any decent resources I can review? > Regards, > Steve Steve, out of curiousity -- you say <font> tags are wrong but your email was full of <font>. Is there a reason? --Kynn
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