- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:30:50 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
My action item from 2000-05-04 joint meeting, and some feedback. >Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:36:47 -0400 >To: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org> >From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org> >Subject: Alt Text with Advertisements > >Many web pages are supported by the advertisements (ADVTS) they deliver. >The delivered ADVTS should have ALT-text. Those ADVTS may be provided by a >consolidator selecting from many sources. Possibly the particular >delivered ADVTS are shaped by user actions. Make sure that alt-text comes >along >with those ADVTS. > >This request is a result of the joint UA/WG meeting 2000-05-04, where >Gregory Rosmaita suggested that EO should encourage the advertising >service providers to include appropriate alt-text with their ADVTS, >and to require their sources of those ADVTS to provide them. Most ADVTS >are highly visual now, and miss a significant part of their audience >if those alt-text are lost, or made meaningless when the alt-text value >is derived from their filenames, or is the generic "click here". > >[HB: It may also be appropriate to encourage longdesc to be delivered, >in anticipation that someday browsers will support following the longdesc.] > >Regards/Harvey Bingham > > >Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 19:03:35 -0400 >From: Kathleen Anderson <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us> >Reply-To: kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us >Organization: Office of the State Comptroller >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en,pdf >To: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org> >CC: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org >Subject: Re: Alt Text with Advertisements > >Harvey: >What a wonderful idea! >Just to clarify, though - are you speaking of the code and images >supplied by affiliate programs? If so, I have another item for your >list. Please encourage them to use '&' instead of '&', which doesn't >validate and then I have to correct it, which goes against their terms >and conditions (you're not supposed to modify the code they supply). >Thanks! > >-- >Kathleen Anderson >State Comptroller's Office >Hartford, Connecticut 06106 >voice: (860) 702-3355 fax: (860) 702-3634 >e-mail: kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us >URL OSC: http://www.osc.state.ct.us/ >URL ACCESS: http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/ >AWARE: http://aware.hwg.org/ >Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 19:36:54 -0400 >To: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org> >From: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net> >Subject: Re: Alt Text with Advertisements >Cc: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org> > >aloha, harvey! > >Harvey Bingham wrote: > >quote >[HB: It may also be appropriate to encourage longdesc to be delivered, >in anticipation that someday browsers will support following the longdesc.] >unquote > >an excellent suggestion, harvey, especially as a lot of web advertisements >contain a lot of complex material, and often resort to using animated GIFs >in order to deliver the maximum amount of content in the minimal amount of >physical space dictated by their advertising budget! > >gregory > >CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the >Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. > Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ >----- >Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> >Camera Obscura: <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html> >VICUG NYC: <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> >Read 'Em & Speak: <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/index.html>
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