Re: BonoboPreview initiative - png in a control

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote:

> From: Dr. David Gilbert <gilbertd treblig org>
> Subject: Re: BonoboPreview initiative - png in a control
>
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> > Do thumbnails in a file open dialog really need to be accessible?
> > They're just extra info, and you can operate the file dialog just fine
> > completely ignoring them. Indeed, having a screen reader read
> > something that describes the file contents instead of just reading the
> > name would be kind of silly.
>
> Exactly; what I was saying is that providing a magic facility specially to
> hold images is not sufficient.  For a start somethings are better
> described by a piece of text, secondly as you say a text summary is useful
> for screen reading.
>
> So we seem to have 3 things (at least) going on:
>
>   1) Some users might prefer (require)  a text summary rather than text.
>
>   2) Some applications are best displayed with images and some with text
>
>   3) We need performance.
>
> Dave

Maybe you're looking at this from the wrong POV (accessability-wise). Take
for example a Word document. It may be rendered in a picture, which would
look largely like this (pardon my bad English ;)

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---- -- ----, -- ---
-- --- -- ---. -- --

(Imagine the lines as a really small font)
Is this necessarily bad? I don't think so. A visually impaired person would-
n't see it anyway, but the screen reader would actually read those things
that ARE unreadable (for normal persons).
Even more, though I'm taking a wild guess since I don't know what the capa-
bilities of atk etc. are, I think we could use them in a way that benefits
all, like say, when you move your mouse over the preview, you get a zoomed-
in version of that document, which MAY actually be readable (sort of like
Enlightenments pager).

Just my 0.02 Euro (what good is an AZERTY keyboard when it doesn't have a
Euro symbol? :p)

Regards,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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