Jose Kahan:

[was found unsent on our not-so-smartlist server yesterday]

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 21:15:28 -0400
To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
From: Mike Paciello <paciello@yuri.org>
Subject: ALT Description
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(Folks: I sent this to the ICADD WG earlier this week. I realized today
that I registered on the WAI via my 
ISP's e-mail address. So this orginal message was rejected. I'm resending
today)

WG Folks:

When we left Sophia, George Kerscher and I were asked by the WAI to go back
to the ICADD working group and work out the requirements for multiple
levels of description to elements (table, image, sound). Guidelines were to
include, long and short, use and content, and language.

George and I briefly discussed possibilities and minimum standards.
However, the recent discussions on the WAI WG list have led me to believe
that this requires much deeper level of discussion then we had considered.
Certainly several of the recent suggestions should be considered.

Here are my brief suggestions to ensure that we get this task done this week:

1. ICADD and WAI WG member that want to be involved, please follow WAI WG
listserv all week. I believe this is a decent forum for us to discuss things.

2. Can someone tell me what the maximum character string length is for the
ALT attribute in HTML 3.2? Is it 256 characters? I spent all week trying to
find this in the spec to no avail. I believe this could contribute to the
minimum standard as currently specified.

3. Can we start the discussion using this agenda:

	1. Determining the minimum default standard (which right now is null.
Should it be the image file name?)
	2. Determining the recommended minimum guideline (different from a standard)

4. We can then work on optimum/maximum guidleines.


Sorry for dragging on this....on my "off" days I have a Foundation to
direct :-)

- - Mike

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