Thread Subject: Re: Content

From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG
Date: Fri, Jan 12 2007 2:20 PM

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From: "Andi Snow-Weaver" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: [teitac-websoftware] Content


It's time to start discussing the issues around content. We have collected
a number of issues [1], specifically:

- forms embedded in e-mail
- e-mail attachments (Word, PDF, JPG, GIF formats)
- TIFF and PDF documents on the Web
- row and column headers in content

Are there other issues?

Roberto Scano:
Another accessibility problem in e-mail is quoting of content. There are
some suggestion about how to quote in accessible mode
(http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_message.php?id=8987).

Andy Snow-Weaver:
Thoughts on how we might solve the issues?

Roberto Scano:
For e-mail attachment, what we can suggest is to follow the accessibility
guidelines developed/offered by the company that develop the document (eg:
Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, etc.). For raw images, like JPG, TIFF, GIF,
there is no possibility to define an "alt" attribute: user should add
textual description for raw image attachments inside body of message.
Another problem is the e-mail rendering by User Agents: if i send, for
example, an e-mail formatted in XHTML, my e-mail client convert in MSHTML...
So how can we guarantee that the sent content will be rendered "as is" in
the receiver user agent?

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