FPWD: Personalization Semantics 1.0

Personalization Semantics 1.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-personalization-semantics-1.0-20170606/

Abstract


Personalization involves tailoring aspects of the user experience to meet the needs and prefences of the user. For example, having familiar terms and symbols is key to many users being able to use the web. However, what is familiar for one user may be unfamiliar to another requiring them to learn new symbols. The challenge has been the ability to identify the types of content in a document that should be adapted to the preferred user experience. The introduction of standardized semantics allows web applications to customize the exposure of that content to one that is familiar to individuals based on their needs and preferences. This specification defines standard semantics to enable user driven personalization such as the association of a user-preferred symbols to elements having those semantics. This ensures that users can quickly find familiar icons, such as a help icon, that apply to user interface elements.

Status of the Document


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This is a First Public Working Draft of Personalization Semantics by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group. It was initially developed by the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force to provide technology features needed to meet user needs identified in the draft Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis [coga-gap-analysis]. It was transferred to the ARIA Working Group for development as a WAI-ARIA 1.1 [wai-aria-1.1] module. Although this was initiated by a task force focusing on the needs of users with cognitive and learning disabilities, it is intended to support a wide variety of personalization use cases.

This is an early draft of the module with a number of proposed properties to support various personalization use cases in different ways. The description and attribute models for some properties are not yet complete. In order to avoid potential confusion with more mature WAI-ARIA 1.1 features, the names of all properties in this specification currently begin with "coga-". This prefix is expected to change in future versions of this specification. A goal of this publication is to obtain early implementation, but implementers should be aware of this and implement in a manner to accommodate the change readily.

Feedback on any aspect of the specification is accepted. For this publication, the WAI-ARIA Working Group particularly seeks feedback on the following questions: Does this approach to supporting personalization of web content seem useful to authors, user agent implementers, and users? Does the set of properties proposed collectively meet needs for personalization support that are not currently met in other ways on the web platform? Is it clear how to implement each property in user agents? Is it useful and feasible for authors to use these properties?

To comment, file an issue in the W3C personalization semantics GitHub repository. If this is not feasible, send email to public-aria@w3.org (comment archive). Comments are requested by 30 June 2017. In-progress updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors' draft.

This document was published by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group as a First Public Working Draft.

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