- From: Mike Paciello <paciello@yuri.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:09:17 -0500
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <GV@TraceCenter.org>, "'Liam Quinn'" <liam@htmlhelp.com>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I would second Gregg's suggestion. Functional descriptions are much more critical to both the navigational and cognitive needs of the user. If, however the color of the line somehow implied meaning -- like a street signal -- then including the color would be important. Regards, Mike At 02:19 PM 3/27/98 -0600, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >-----Original Message----- ><SNIP> >>alt text would work well for all three audiences: maybe something like >><img alt="purple line________________________________"> and >><img alt="zig-zag line /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\"> would >>work well. > >I would use > ><IMG ALT="-------------------------" TITLE="Purple line"> > >ALT as replacement text, TITLE as an image title: If we treat these >attributes this way, we get simplicity and consistency. > >-- >Liam Quinn > > >I would suggest that it should reflect the function of the line rather than the appearance as in > ><IMG ALT= "Section Divider Line" > >Gregg > >-- ------------------------------ >Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. >Professor - Human Factors >Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. >Director - Trace R & D Center >GV@tracecenter.org , http://tracecenter.org/ >FAX 608/262-8848 >For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@tracecenter.org > > > > > >
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