- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:09:19 -0400
- To: "Katie Haritos-Shea" <kshea@apollo.fedworld.gov>, "_W3C-WAI Web Content Access. Guidelines List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 10:40 AM -0400 2001/7/29, Katie Haritos-Shea wrote: >OK...........I don't want to open the can of worms >again...................but, saw this that David P. posted to Trace. >Interesting Robot story from Nasa.........towards the bottom of the page it >has a section called "Thursday's Classroom Corner" There, you can find, >three grade-level choices, available only in text (for two), and with >graphics for one, but it is a .PDF. Certainly this idea has existed in >academic circles for a long time, not in web-format, however. >http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23jul_1.htm?list438943 One of the best ways to get folks to even consider "grade-level" when writing is to ask them to explicitly define it in metadata somewhere -- such as PICS and other "self-rating" systems request (of other kinds of metadata). --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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