Re: Reminder: MathML Semantics meeting, Thursday 24 Sept

Hi Neil, all,

Names are tricky to brainstorm on the spot, so here's a seeding email with
another direction we haven't discussed (I think?).

I recalled MathML has had "alttext" and "altimg" for some time, exactly for
accessibility purposes. So one suggestion trying to keep with the spirit of
MathML 3 could be to introduce an "alttree" attribute for the tree-like
annotations we have been discussing. Or slightly removed from those
details, maybe "altcontent" ?

An even more conservative take would be to outright use the existing
"alttext", but specify custom handling when its values match our new
annotation syntax.

In a more literary direction, attribute names such as "readout" or
"narration" feel appealing to a point, but may be too detached from the
technical details... I only find them preferable when comparing to
"semantics".

Greetings,
Deyan


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:33 PM Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> We meet again on Thursday, 24 Sept at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 7pm
> Central European Time.
>
> One thing to think about before the meeting is a different name for what
> we are currently calling the "semantics" attribute. Most people agree
> that is too loaded a word and we should figure out another name for it.
> Potentially, "subject" should also be changed and if there is a synergistic
> pair, that would be great.
>
> Agenda:
> 1. Charter
>    a) timeline for getting things done
>    b) better name than "semantics" -- need something for charter usage
> 2. Semantics names -- continue discussion with Deyan's google doc as a
> framework
>    a) More discussion on the meaning/purpose of the various levels
>    b) Amount of details: (still unresolved) "millimeter" vs "unit";
> "hydrogen" vs "element", etc.
> 3. Continued discussion on "semantics"
>    a) continue discussion of David C's idea to deal with alignment
>    b) continue discussion on n-ary operators, especially +/- and
> relational operators
>
>
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