Re: DA 54: First draft of the rewrite of "The img element" - COMMENT KHS

Laura,

First I would like to note that I am not a member of the HTML 5 working group, but I have been a member of WCAG 2.0 for many years.

Having said that, I do have a two quick comments regarding the Action 54: First Draft at 
[3] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttribute.


Comment 1:
Suggest changing "General alt Text Good Practices" to "General alt Text - Best Practices".


Comment 2:

For......
Images of Text
Description
Images of text are pictures of alphabetic or numeric textual characters. 

Suggestion, for i18n purposes should this description not include the concept of *pictures of* 'ASCII Art', which is a pattern of characters or character glyphs whereby, I think, a single glyph can represent a word, thought or phrase (this is a specific representation that is not equal to a symbol)? 

Suggest changing "Images of text are pictures of alphabetic or numeric textual characters." to 
"Images of text are pictures of alphabetic, glyph or numeric textual characters." 


(A longer version could be "Images of text are pictures of alphabetic or numeric textual characters, and ASCII Art that represent a word, thought or phrase.", but would be redudnant considering the 'Examples include pictures of:' list that follow the description)



(BTW - your team has done a good job with this draft)


Katie




-----Original Message-----
>From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
>Sent: May 9, 2008 5:06 AM
>To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
>Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org, html4all <list@html4all.org>
>Subject: Discussion Action 54: First draft of the rewrite of "The img element"
>
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>As Steve Faulkner reported [1] yesterday he, Joshue O Connor, and I
>have completed the first draft [2] of action 54 to rewrite major
>sections of 3.12.2 "The img element". The document has been peer
>reviewed by Gez Lemon and Gregory Rosmaita.
>
>We would love to have your input. Please send your comments to this
>thread by May 22. A copy of the draft is also in the Wiki [3].
>
>Your feedback will be instrumental in moving forward on this issue.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Best Regards,
>Laura
>
>[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008May/0121.html
>[2] http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/uc/
>[3] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/Action54AltAttribute
>
>Best Regards,
>Laura
>-- 
>Laura L. Carlson
>


* katie *

Katie Haritos-Shea 
Section 508 Technical Policy Analyst

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