1) In addition to being searchable, text lends itself to other forms of automated processing such as translation and text-to-speech for the vision impaired.
2) I'm prone to debilitating eyestrain headaches when I try to do any kind of graphical work on a computer, yet I can write text without looking at the screen.
isn't it very temporary advantage, till couple of decade back text wasn't searchable, and in couple of decades images may be equally searchable. Also pictures commonly have universal meanings.
1) In addition to being searchable, text lends itself to other forms of automated processing such as translation and text-to-speech for the vision impaired.
2) I'm prone to debilitating eyestrain headaches when I try to do any kind of graphical work on a computer, yet I can write text without looking at the screen.