- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: 2000年5月27日 11:31:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- cc: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0005271128390.13727-100000@tux.w3.org>
There is a large body of work on graphic communication - people use it in places like airports, space stations, instruction manuals, and so forth. I have not looked for this kind of work on the Web, but Art Libraries often have heaps of books on it (I read a very nice one recently, from the 60's but well thought-out, clearly and helpfully illustrated, and mostly relevant today - these things change, just as verbal alnguage does). Charles McCN On 2000年5月10日, Anne Pemberton wrote: At 10:37 AM 5/10/2000 -0400, Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote: >Do you know if there are any guidelines to do a visual alternative for text? Marja, If there are such guidelines, other than in book/magazine/newspaper publishing, I'm not aware of them. Textbooks, early reading books and many hardbound books for any age seem to follow guidelines that dictate the amount of text and/or visuals per page. Magazines and newspapers seem to follow guidelines, perhaps ones common in their field/for a similar audience. Encyclopedia are typically well illustrated, and are most hard-bound dictionaries include drawings for words that are specific, such as a type of animal or object. Publication guidelines probably do not address "cogntive disabilities" as such, but tend to include these folks in their attempt to reach their widest audience. Of course, television has visuals for almost everything they broadcast no matter how abstract. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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