- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:13:09 +0000
- To: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On 24 Mar 2008, at 20:07, Matt Morgan-May wrote: > On 3/24/08 12:58 PM, "David Dorward" <david@dorward.me.uk> wrote: >>> [MM] Now you're really overreaching. A pipe is not "ASCII art". >> >> Really? It is an ASCII character. It is being used for visual >> appearance, and not the meaning it has (since it doesn't have any >> meaning in English). That sounds like ASCII art to me. > > [MM] It's not. From WCAG 1.0: > > "ASCII art refers to text characters and symbols that are combined > to create > an image. For example ';-)' is the smiley emoticon." Interesting definition. '|' qualifies in every respect except "combined", and at a stretch you could say that ' | ' meets that fragment of the definition too. From a practical standpoint, screen readers (depending on which one and how they are configured) so pronounce it as 'pipe', which makes no sense in the context. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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