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?
> 
> 




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