How RDF can enhance accessibility

I am sure I have missed out  usages , but it is hard to encapsulate the
full paradigm in a few bullet points .
 
In the RDF Techniques document I identify a few areas where RDF can
enhance accessibility:
 

*	Media Equivalents  including: Providing text equivalents for
resources attached to any resource by anybody, mapping to webservice
that provides the equivalent (such as our no frames transcoder, or high
contrast rendering)
*	Structured Textual Markup - enhancing stucture of  the markup of
a document, including Data Tables  outside a document, or translating
the structure of an XML document to a markup structure that AT's are
used to dealing with (e.g. myXML to XHTML) Binding sections of a
document to a common role. Mapping different content sections  as  a
block with common task/role, 
*	Role and associations of elements and formats (pink implies
feminine, bold is important, this is a field for the date, this page is
a site map)
*	Clarifying Text (such as lexical references, resolving
ambiguities such as pronouns (which "he" did you mean?), implied
meanings,  that type of thing)
*	Simplifying Text (such as  symbols, summaries, to sections of
content including section annotated with a role or as a block, marking
sections of content as important for a given profile. Etc)
*	Forms and Interactivity -using RDF to map to the accessible
interactivity model, and accessible form information , building and
binding functional equivalents 
*	Robustness and cross technology solutions including, a, using
RDF to map accessibility and content model on non W3C technologies and
non WCAG supported markup languages (see XAG) b, use of user profiling
for different interpretations and rendering of web content 

 
 
General benefits 
 
Why RDF - Taken from the RDF Techniques document

*	Key benefits of annotation based solutions
*	Annotation base accessibility usage could solve accessibility
problems in the following situations: 
*	Simplified, annotated or multimedia content required for
accessibility for some, is inappropriate for other audiences. 2 For
example: annotations can provide, titles, headers, summaries (non
normative) , glossary references and links to background information 
*	The original rendering is incapable of change, such as when web
authors are unable to use simplified language.
*	There are a large amount of pages to be made accessible
including legacy pages - Annotations work generically on a site and are
constructed to apply to the whole site. A single annotation can address
a violation that occurs on multiple pages, and will fix each occurrence
of the accessibility violation. The site does not have to be pulled down
and retrofitted, and many pages can be automatically repaired.
Annotations can also be constructed to apply generically to any content
that is based on the same template. The same annotation repairs multiple
pages that are created by the same application and template. 
*	XML schema can be annotated to increase accessibility usage,
which could have an effect of an immeasurable number of documents based
on that schema.
*	alternatives / conditional content in different media's can be
provided. For instance, an auditory rendering of a visual aid might be
more appropriate in some contexts than text.
*	User profiles can be attached to Web content and alternatives,
so renderings can be optimized to the individual user. 

As a secondary benefit, RDF Improves compatibility Knowledge-Based
Services and the Semantic Web. 

In integrating accessibility and the semantic web, accessibility can be
moved forward, paving the way for customized accessible searches and
intelligent user agents with additional applications. 

 
Keep well and all the best,
 
Lisa
 
Lisa Seeman
UB Access
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