Please review for this week's call: proposal and process for the "text in images" thread

Please:
review this entire message.

Please:
Do not respond to this message unless you have new information that has not 
been presented yet.  There has been quite a lot of traffic on this thread 
and I have been very pleased to see people sending considerate, thoughtful 
messages.  I am glad to see how much information has been collected in the 
last couple of weeks.  However, Jason and I believe we are ready to wrap up 
this discussion.

Therefore, I propose:

<blockquote> 3.1 Use markup rather than images to convey information. 
[Priority 2]  This checkpoint is strongly tied to checkpoint 11.1.
Note: Until style and graphic markup languages are more common, minimize 
the use of text in images.  For example, use HTML text styled with CSS. 
Choose common fonts (such as Arial and Times) that can be rendered using 
CSS. You may use text in images for logos and limited accent elements where 
specialized fonts and text treatments are required and cannot be achieved 
with CSS.
</blockquote>

Thank you Cynthia for the bulk of the wording for this proposal.

Process for Thursday's telecon:
Jason and I  have decided to give each person one minute to speak on this 
proposal.  We will then take the information gathered and figure out where 
to go from there.  If possible, we would like to close this at the 
call.  However, this is not a formal vote on this proposal, but a chance to 
hear each person speak for one minute (and I will be timing!!).  If you are 
unable to make the call, please send a 2 sentence statement to me by 2:00 
Eastern U.S. time (i.e. I must receive it no later than 2 hours before the 
working group call) and I will make sure it is represented during the call.

Thank you,
--wendy
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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
madison, wi usa
tel: +1 608 663 6346
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Received on Wednesday, 25 October 2000 15:08:58 UTC