Designer wrote: > Even with alt tags, reading that he/she is 'looking' at a > picture of 'my cat' or 'my birthday party' would be > singularly dull, I'd have thought! The dullness of the alt text is irrelevant. Some people find photo sites dull and that is just as irrelevant to this discussion.
Designer wrote: >Surely, there ARE cases where a purely visual site... I don't know what is a "purely visual site". Can you please provide an example? Regards, -Vlad http://xhtml.com -------- Original Message -------- From: Designer Date: 2007-08-30 12:51 PM > Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote: > >> Creating content on the Web that is only accessible by one group of >> people is never appropriate. >> >> Sites like flickr have tools that let photo contributors upload photos >> in batches for convenience. As often happens, convenience for one >> group of people causes inconvenience for another group of people. >> >> Regards, >> -Vlad >> http://xhtml.com > > Let's just keep things in perspective for a moment. > > If a user is unfortunate enough to have eyesight which dictates that > he/she has to use a screenreader, it is unlikey that he/she will get > much out of flickr anyway. Even with alt tags, reading that he/she is > 'looking' at a picture of 'my cat' or 'my birthday party' would be > singularly dull, I'd have thought! > > Surely, there ARE cases where a purely visual site can NEVER be > presented 'accessibly' in any eaningful way? > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
