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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Feb 1998.
Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

From miK <mmi...@dataweb.nl> · alt.ascii-art · 5 Feb 1998 00:00 · View full thread
lst...@lstock.demon.nl (Lennert Stock) wrote:

>Read on http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0203.html, the
>World Wide Web Consortium's new Web Accessibility Initiative Draft
>Guidelines:

 >6.[RECOMMENDED] 
 >Avoid ASCII art. Replace it with an image and alternative text.
 >Common typographic characters or constructions to be avoided are
 >emoticons, arrows consisting of dashes and greater than
 >signs (e.g., -->), etc.

>Ouch ;)


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_____________________________________________mic at dataweb dot nl

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From: mmi...@dataweb.nl (miK)
Subject: Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
Date: 1998/02/05
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