Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

>From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
>Date: Sun, Feb 8, 1998 13:06 EST
>Message-id: <6bks76$5bt$1...@tron.sci.fi>

> The document from which the excerpt is taken
>is about making web pages accessible to people with disabilities etc.
>Ascii art doesn't do well on a non-textual medium. It sounds horrible
>when read by a speech synthetizer, and I suspect it appears no better on
>a braille terminal.

I do have to giggle right here-- I have heard from a
sight-impaired person who uses a speech synthesizer--
and he LOVES the ASCII art--  he loves how it 'freaks'
his sighted friends out when the picture is described.
He is on an ASCII art mailing list-- (Maria Zorka's
thought& ASCII  of the day) so he must like it.
-joan
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