- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 22:13:49 -0500
- To: "'w3c-wai-wg@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
We found in our work that people wanted layered descriptions. Something very short and succinct Something more descriptive Something which catches all of the information available visually. They don't want to pay for the latter unless they want or need it. Suggest we think of Alt Tag as the first level. Perhaps the second level could be embedded in the page if it is short. The third would be downloaded on request from the server. The link for this extended description might be embedded in the second level information somehow. This suggestion is not made from the basis of technical feasibility but rather from the fact that it buries it away a bit so that it does not confuse the regular page any more than it has to - but makes it available to those seeking more descriptive information. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. Director - Trace R & D Center gv@trace.wisc.edu http://trace.wisc.edu FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Al Gilman [SMTP:asgilman@access.digex.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 4:17 PM To: Larry Goldberg Cc: WAI Working Group Subject: Re: D-tags, etc. My text for this message: From: "Larry Goldberg" <Larry_Goldberg@wgbh.org> ... all users (vision-impaired or not) are only interested in one version of the data. [Al, here...] Not many of our users would agree with that. If there are alternatives, our users want to know that the alternatives exist, and control the selection of alternatives, including going back for more or different data if the rules applied at the server didn't work well. Yes, they are willing for the server to guess. The don't want all the data delivered at first blush. But they want the guesses to determine defaults, not stone walls. We've had some heated discussions on lynx-dev over this one. -- Al Gilman
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