Yes, 'moot'...thanks for the correction... I'm not sure how the "technological change" will actually affect the interaction between end user and designer as far as who has final control of the presentation. Font embedding is not something that I've spent much time on.
I can't find the reference now, but read recently that the font industry was finally beginning to get its act together and license fonts for embedding or download or whatever the technique is, through a clearinghouse to which designers would pay one of several fee options to be able to use licensed fonts in their sites. This opens up worlds of creative options and will complicate the issues of deriving meaning from text only, vs layout/text/graphics, etc. I just think the writing is on the wall that font manipulation has had its day, but will soon be overrun by more satisfying options that will have to be deployed by browser creators, rather than end users who will eventually have little or no control over how information is presented to them "as a whole", rather than just on the font size they read. Rick On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:12 AM, <michael.brocking...@bt.com> wrote: > I don't really see how the ability to download fonts (that is what you are > talking about, isn't it?), will affect web accessibility significantly. > It will have a big impact on design, but the technological change surely > only affects the back-end of the web browser, not the actual display. > > PS I presume you meant 'moot' not 'mute' ? > > Regards, > Mike > > ________________________________ > > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org on behalf of Rick Faircloth > Sent: Fri 03/07/2009 14:01 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible websites > > > sine qua non also means "most basic" - yes, it is the most critical aspect > of accessibility > to information, if the information is contained in textual form, but it is > only the most > primal level of accessibility to be offered. > > New techniques, well not actually new, but finally unleashed legally, are > being deployed > which will allow designers to use any font desired and I'm not so sure that > end users will > have much control over the display of those fonts embedded in the site. > Those font/design > techniques, I believe, will dominate web design and could soon make all > discussion of > font manipulation a mute point, which will drive us towards other > solutions, such as whole > browser magnification, etc. > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." Henry Kissinger ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
