- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:04:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
This was posted to UA because I was suggesting UA look at including access to information wich can be encoded within graphics (etc) standards (such as GIF.) On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Actually, it sounds like a checkpoint to me - a thing which Authoring Tools "should" do to significantly increase the accesibility of the end product. It is certainly not a priority 1. Techniques for this include supporting the use of standards which allow information to be encoded with it (such as GIF), as well as asking User Agent Guidelines to consider providing access to that information. Charles McCN On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: At 03:52 p.m. 02/11/99 -0500, Jutta Treviranus wrote: >Should the point about "Including professionally written descriptions for >all multimedia files (e.g., clip art) packaged with the software" >be a checkpoint and therefore something that must or should be done or >should it be a technique and therefore a suggested way of fulfilling the >guideline 2.6? This sounds like a technique to me. The principle is: "Make it easy for users to suply alternative text." The technique is: "...by including default descriptions for things you give them." Anyone have suggested working for the checkpoint, though? -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Six Principles of Accessible Web Design: http://www.kynn.com/+six Spring 1999 Virtual Dog Show! http://www.dogshow.com/ Enroll now for my web accessibility course http://www.kynn.com/+access --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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