Re: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-15 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Many CSS image replacement techniques are highly problematic for users with visual impairments. Let's say you hide some text off-screen and replace it with a background image. Let's say one of your users has colorblindness or otherwise impaired vision and needs to force particular background

Re: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-12 Thread David Thompson
Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Let's say a web page uses an image such as a checkmark or green/red light to represent a boolean, for instance the availability/status of a product or a program. What would be the suggested best practice to make this human-readable content machine-readable as well?

Re: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:37, Frances Berriman wrote: On 12/07/07, David Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillaume Lebleu wrote: What would be the suggested best practice to make this human-readable content machine-readable as well? Ok, maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the

Re: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-12 Thread Frances Berriman
On 12/07/07, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, July 12, 2007 10:37, Frances Berriman wrote: On 12/07/07, David Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillaume Lebleu wrote: What would be the suggested best practice to make this human-readable content machine-readable as well?

Re: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Suda
Just a friendly reminders, that all parsing questions, suggestions, etc should be on the microformats-dev list. I had a chat with mike kaply yesterday on IRC about some of these issues. And we are looking into it with alternatives which can solve these sorts of problems with existing solutions.

RE: [uf-discuss] making img machine-readable

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Ganz
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Let's say a web page uses an image such as a checkmark or green/red light to represent a boolean, for instance the availability/status of a product or a program. What would be the suggested best practice to make this human-readable