- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:01:11 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Kynn Bartlett writes: > In this particular case, the question is "how do you make content in > an arbitrary XML format accessible to an audience with disabilities?" > In this context, "arbitrary XML" means "an XML language whose > meaning is clear to the author, but the user agent only has the > syntax to go on." I don't believe that's really what people are suggesting here. There seems to be an easier answer here, which involves promoting guidelines which make XML usable in a WAI context (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlgl) rather than considering XML a dangerous menace. Are those guidelines just too weak? Do we really need to make sure that authors only use vocabularies whose semantics are pre-ordained by the developers of user agents? If that's the case, an awful lot of us have wasted an incredible amount of time. It's reasonably obvious that XML isn't "self-describing". It's also reasonably obvious that attaching accessibility information to labeled structures holding textual content is not an impossible problem. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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