Fwd: Alt Text with Advertisements

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
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>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 '&amp;' 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!
>
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>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
>
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