Re: Action item: why structure is an accessibility issue from William Loughborough on 2001-08-14 (w3c-wai-au@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 06:20:37 -0700
To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Cc: w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010814061433.037e2780@mail.gorge.net>

At 08:01 AM 8/14/01 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Structured content is important for users with disabilities

Another seldom-dwelt-on fact is that this is also very important for machines.

The Semantic Web is essentially Web Accessibility for Machines, all of 
which are cursed with semantic-pragmatic disability. In all the 'droid 
movies the friendly robot is constantly led astray by 
simile/metaphor/irony/sarcasm. Attending to semantics and 
exporting/documenting its features is fundamental to authoring, whether of 
documents or of new languages.

--
Love.
EACH UNINDEXED WEB POSTING WE MAKE IS TESTAMENT TO OUR HYPOCRISY

Received on Tuesday, 14 August 2001 09:19:05 UTC