Re: Personalization Introduction

Looks great. 1 spelling mistake: straregies

JF

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 5:17 PM Becky Gibson <becky@knowbility.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> At today’s meeting I took the action item to draft a brief introduction to
> the Personalization task force and our mission (our “elevator pitch”). This
> will be used to send emails to people we hope will attend our session at
> TPAC.  We wanted a 2-4 sentence overview and a few examples.  We also want
> to ask people to help us evaluate the proposed implementation strategies
> and to make recommendations.
>
> Here is the draft to get us started.  Please make edits and suggestions.
> I borrowed from Charles’ TPAC Session proposal
> <https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2018/SessionIdeas#Personalization_-_How_Should_We_Implement.3F>
> .
>
> thanks,
> -becky
>
> Introduction to Personalization The goal of the personalization task force
> is to enable the adaptation of web content to user needs. Some users may
> need simplification of text and concepts or translation into symbols.
> Others may need content that is free of numbers, minimizes distractions, or
> provides additional help. The web author augments the content to identify
> options, simplications, or replacements. User agents or other technologies
> use these semantics to augment or adapt the content based on identified
> user preferences. Examples: The content might specify that, "9 out of 10
> people prefer coffee over tea". The author would identify the "9 out of 10"
> phrase and provide "almost all" as the number free alternative. Most symbol
> sets are proprietary. People who use symbols to communicate often don't
> understand symbols from another set. There is a need for a standard
> vocabulary that authors can use to idenfity items. These standard tokens
> can then be mapped to each unique symbol set. The task force has 3 modules
> and an explainer document in editor draft status. Below are links to these
> documents and to a Google Document comparing the implementation straregies
> we have explored. The task force needs your help to select the best
> implementation schema for the personalization semantics. We have eliminated
> RDFa, HTML Microdata, and ARIA attributes as not practical at this time.
>
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>    - Comparison-of-ways-to-use-vocabulary-in-content
>    <https://github.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/wiki/Comparison-of-ways-to-use-vocabulary-in-content>
>    - Personalization Semantics Explainer 1.0
>    <https://raw.githack.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/WD-explainer-and-module1-FPWD-module2-and-module3/explainer.html>
>    - Personalization Semantics Content Module 1.0
>    <https://raw.githack.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/WD-explainer-and-module1-FPWD-module2-and-module3/content/index.html>
>    - Personalization Help and Support 1.0
>    <https://raw.githack.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/WD-explainer-and-module1-FPWD-module2-and-module3/help/index.html>Personalization
>    Tools 1.0
>    <https://raw.githack.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/WD-explainer-and-module1-FPWD-module2-and-module3/tools/index.html>
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