Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

miK (mmi...@dataweb.nl) wrote:
: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) wrote:
: >What they mean is "Using ascii art on pages may make then inaccessible
: >to blind readers." Arrows are fine from an HTML point of view, as long
: >as you remember to use > and <.

: >  --> like this <--

: Now I'm confused again.
: I reckon a speech synthesizer will make this sentence sound like "hyphen
: hyphen right angle bracket like this left angle bracket hyphen hyphen"
: or "dash dash waka like this waka dash dash" - depending on the model.

Indeed. You got the point I was making, I just wasn't being clear enough
in that paragraph. The key is "from an HTML point of view", that is, they
won't be confused with tags, as Dave suggested, if done properly.

On the other hand, I know at least one notorious site which contains a
lot of ascii pictures including lines like "<-- this thing here", all
without the proper entities. I've mailed the owner twice about it, but
while my other input was accepted, it seems some people just think a
simple search-and-replace is too much work..

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