  RE: GW Micro Helps Make Macromedia Flash Content Accessible to
People Who Are Blind  From: Charles McCathieNevile
<charles@w3.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:10:20 -0500 (EST) To:
Access Systems <accessys@smart.net> Message-ID:
<Pine.LNX.4.30.0203061005270.6890-100000@tux.w3.org> On Wed, 6
Mar 2002, Access Systems wrote:    On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Charles
McCathieNevile wrote:    > ASCII text is not a solution that
works. "ASCII art" - using text characters   > and layout to
represent graphic content - is an extremely poor choice for   >
making graphics that can be presented to users of braille, or
people using    wasn't suggesting that it be used for graphics,
your right almost no way a   person using a braille or text to
speech reader could understand it.    that is where the alt tag
is handy  OK, so it seems we are in agreement on that bit. Bob
also said   I was pretty sure there was a text set for most
languages, I have seen the   Japanese version   there is no one
single method that everyone can use, but the