text equivalents propagated by image indexing

Years ago we dreamed of a diffusion cycle where ALT text and
descriptions of visuals would be created once by some cyberAngel when
a person with a disability asked for sighted help and then associated
with other occurrences of the same image by some sort of an indexing
scheme such as hashes.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/1998Sep/0015

Now an ambitious European project aims to remove the need for a 
cooperating cyberAngel.

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5571496

http://www.google.com/search?q=Quaero+INRIA

Al

Received on Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:55:03 UTC