- From: Murray Maloney <murray@maloney.mail.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:45:08 -0400
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
At 07:38 PM 15-09-97 -0400, Jason White wrote: >With regard to the braille media type definition, >should we include provision for specifying the >dimensions of the braille device so that >styles can be selected on the basis of the page >dimensions of the hardware? Interesting discussions lately. Sorry for being away from the list for so long. So, what you are imagining is a link to a resource that is already preformatted to a specific size. Links to Braille resources that are pre-formatted for a variety of different physical sizes, ranging from presses to punches and Braille pin readers. Is that how Braille works? I always thought that electronic file formats were dynamically layed out at presentation time -- but that is not a conclusion that I arrived at through research of any kind So could someone please tell what the truth is? Anyway, if a user agent needs to know the size of the resource before it retrieves it, then I suppose we will have to ask for a mechanism to do that -- a la' <IMG>. The other way is to use <OBJECT> to declare or include any Braille resource at any time. By using <OBJECT> the WAI WG could reserve a set of CLASS names for accessibility resources and object-types. Regards, Murray +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Murray Maloney Email: murray@yuri.org Technical Marketing Director Web: http://www.grif.com GRIF S.A. Phone: (905) 509-9120 Fax: (905) 509-8637 Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation http://www.yuri.org Make a Tax-Deductible Donation http://www.yuri.org/donate.html
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