Pictures of text are also bad because they can't be copied easily over to a terminal to be used.
Lord Drachenblut On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, 3:25 PM Frank Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Ray wrote: > > Obviously sighted folks want to see screen-shots etc., that's fine, but > > if images are of text on a terminal window to illustrate how to > > configure something, then they are to be avoided. > > The images in question were simply illustrations, not exposition. Even > had they been "howto" images, I'm not sure that it would be necessary to > avoid images entirely, so much as to ensure that they have properly > configured "alt" text (but "alt" text should be routine in HTML and > other markup languages that support it). > > I have found images displaying text in terminal windows to a poor means > of exposition at the best of times; they are generally hard to read and, > when shrunk to a reasonable size, of poor resolution. Some sort of > "code" tags surrounding the text, as are often seen on blogs or forum > sites, seem to me to be far more effective for howtos about CLI. > > YMMV. > > -- > > Blogging from Pine View Farm: http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog > > Updates daily. Worthwhile updates occasionally. > > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > -- Cheers Matthew "Lord Drachenblut" Williams
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