- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:10:58 -0500 (EST)
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Cc: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> A nice example of how this can be done automatically is in chapter 4 of > the book "Constructing Accessible Websites" by Burks et al - the > chapter is written by Jim Thatcher and demonstrates CORDA, a product > that adds a trivial amount to your average spreadsheet in order to do a > particularly nice job of this... Again with the ellipses. Corda is the maker; the product is PopChart, and is reasonably well known. <http://www.corda.com/products/> It does indeed "generate" words based on very simple spreadsheet calculations, limited in many ways to the business genre of illustration, which, while more heavily prized among office workers, hardly encompasses the full range of graphs and charts, which, WAI assumes, can always be neatly expressed in words. This, of course, is the very point I was making: WAI has the annoying habit of pretending it has wide-ranging topic knowledge when, in fact, its members may have heard of a single example obliquely sometime in their lives and pretend such an example is universally applicable. Doesn't any member of WAI have a chemistry, physics, or engineering degree? My original challenge remains: "Take ten examples from each of [Edward Tufte's] volumes and 'generate a textual explanation' of them." Feel free to fire up PopChart if you wanna. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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