Thread Subject: Re: Final? draft of 1194.41a, b, and c (was discussion of who pays for alternate format)

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Mon, Mar 19 2007 3:40 PM

At 06:26 PM 3/19/2007, David Poehlman wrote:
>dp: I don't see how a group of formats could be taken to meet the
>requirements but I supposse that the requirements could be written
>and or enterpreted in that way. I'd actually like to see
>requirements such that we get cross modality in open standards in any
>compliant format but failing that, we could have a provision or set
>of provisions which allow for multiiple formats to meet the
>requirements as a whole.

WQ: Good point, in applications/formats where this is possible. What about:
a diagram in a graphics format and an accompanying textual description.



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