Subject: Accessible FOs (was: Re: Transformation + FOs makes abuse easy) From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:55:47 -0400 |
At 12:32 AM 4/29/1999 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: >It occurs to me that the minimum list of document objects has already be >described in the ICADD standard: > >http://www.cm.spyglass.com/doc/icadd/ > >"The International Committee for Accessible Document Design ("ICADD") has >published guidelines for designing SGML applications which enable the >preparation of texts for near-automatic conversion to Grade 2 Braille and >for publication both in large print and computer voice editions." Wow, great resource. Thanks for passing it on. I'm a little schizoid on the accessibility issue. The small-d democrat in me says there's no question as to its value; the lazy least-commmon-denominator webmaster says it's still too hard. All of which is compounded by the fact that I'm sufficiently hearing-impaired that I *hate* Web sites requiring audio without providing text transcripts (equivalent of closed-captioning). So I want to celebrate the addition of sight-impaired folks to the Web community (once it becomes widespread, I mean) using aural and Braille style properties. But I also hope that the XSL/CSS WGs will provide guidelines (perhaps even syntactic mechanisms?) for accessibility to *non*-visual media by those whose preference (or need) is for the visual. ============================================================= John E. Simpson | It's no disgrace t'be poor, simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx | but it might as well be. | -- "Kin" Hubbard XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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