- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:12:59 -0700
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Cc: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
PNG has the ability to capture image descriptions as part of the image file.Jason White writes:
> I am somewhat ignorant of image file formats. Do those formats which are
> in use today allow for a header, containing a descriptive title, to
> precede the graphical data? I remember having read that W3C was working on
> the development of image formats, so this issue could be raised in that
> context. Now as is pointed out in RFC1866, it is expected that the client
> will retrieve an image file referenced by an img element automatically,
> without user intervention. This could easily be extended to an HTTP
> request for the header containing the description. Furthermore, the
> header could include, among others, the following two components: (1) a
> title for the image; (2) an optional long description of the image.
>
> The same scheme could also be applied to audio resources.
>
> A fully concur with Daniel's misgivings regarding "text only" pages: there
> should only be a single HTML document, which contains all of the necessary
> semantic content in a form that is independent of presentation. In the WAI
> briefing package, it was said that there is a need for web page
> simplification, namely, techniques for reducing the complexity of web
> pages. Although this could be accomplished by the server in response to an
> HTTP request (assuming the necessary extensions to HTTP), it would be
> better, I think, to conduct any needed transformations on the client side
> by means of style sheets.
>
>
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