Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:01:40 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Including images in the documentation Message-ID: <20000511010140.B85566@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20000510222004.A18297@phoenix.welearn.com.au>; from jon@welearn.com.au on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:20:08PM %2B1000 References: <20000509143555.A1692@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <200005100942.CAA34333@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000510222004.A18297@phoenix.welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:20:08PM +1000, Jonathan Michaels wrote:
> how are the disabled people who view these documents going to
> be able to decipher teh mess that said document will become
> when viewed through a text only interface ?
The same way things are done today. Picture's being worth a thousand
words and all that.
For example,
http://people.freebsd.org/~hm/i4b/index.html
(marked up in LaTeX, natch) makes great use of diagrams to break down
concepts (like the makeup of a packet), while still keeping the necessary
textual description.
N
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