- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:19:11 +0100
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, tina@greytower.net
Don't ask me what WAI may advocate - I can tell you what they do advocate because they are advocating it so it isn't really news, and I can tell you what I, as a single participant, think they should advocate. I can even often tell you what Sidar advocates WAI do - we have a group that discusses points we think are interesting in Spanish, for people who cannot otherwise follow the development of WAI specs and provide their input. It seems to me clear that there is a case for providing a visual identifier for your site as well as a clear text name. This might be used as a "favicon" (horrible word), used to provide clear and consistent style, and so forth. Making this available for others to link to your site would be a helpful thing to do. In my opinion WAI is perfectly able to say "this is a key requirement". Other opinions are likely to include that this is attempting to restrict people's legal right to dispose of their property (in this case such an image) as they see fit. There are also likely to be others besides easyJet who will only permit use of the icon under certain conditions (for that matter, have a look at the conditions under which people are entitled to use the WAI conformance icons, bobby icons, W3C validator icons, etc...). So I can't predict what WAI will end up saying in this case. But I can predict that if some summary of this discussion isn't presented as a proposal to the relevant working group - in this case the WCAG group I think - there is not likely to be any impact on what WAI advocates. just my 2 cents worth cheers Chaals On 19 Jan 2004, at 19:14, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > Chaals, > > perhaps I should make it clear at this stage (again) that peepo.co.uk > is dedicated to the public domain > http://commoncontent.org/catalog/web/educational/594/ > this means that all the graphics are freely useable by anyone for any > purpose. > peepo.com is used as a bridge to the broader world, and this is far > from ideal ~:" > > Is it possible that WAI might advocate: > public domain link graphics for AAA > Royalty free link graphics for AA > Restrictive trademark for A > > well perhaps that's a little too much detail, but you seem to suggest > that > royalty free may not be good enough, and that trademarks really don't > get us far down the accessibility route. > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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