Stan wrote...

>Look for the *PICTURE* of a camera and click on that.  Apparently, they
>didn't want to use *words* so visually impaired readers could enter
>the drawing :(

It somehow seems to me that this is a recent trend in computer-land.

More and more programs seem to use icons (or only icons) when talking
to a human user. Especially web pages frequently lack written words,
or at least package them in huge GIFs or JPEGs (don't get me started
on the bandwidth versus information value thread here...)

What does this trend tell us? Is this just a cheap way of creating
internationalized software without the hassles of NLS, or do the
designers of these pages or products assume that their audience or
customers are probably unable to read written words??

It somehow reminds me of those times where people used to live in
caves and did paint pictures or icons on the walls. Oh, that was
slightly before the HP 3000 started, by the way. But maybe we are
heading back into that direction these days?

Lars.

PS... Throw away you spell-checker and buy a paint-checker soon ;-)