- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:40:37 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
[This came up in PF, but it is an essential point in the "business case" analysis.] There is effort required to abstract the semantic content from its physical expression. "Universal" authoring does not come free. But we need to make better use of the cost studies at RNIB. What they found was that using SGML formalism was a cost savings for _anything that they were delivering in two or more final forms_. Looking at the cost differences as a function of the number of final forms, they had already passed the cost crossover point when they got to _two_. Our target audience is people who will want to deliver the same message in two or more forms. This can be print+web, hotline+print, audiotape+braille, it doesn't matter. The economy is at the source. It takes vision to realize that there are multiple media that the speaker wants to reach with common information, in time to realize this economy. Our awareness efforts have to be to help people grasp this vision, to raise the consciousness in the authoring population of the media-spread in their desired audience. Al > >-h&kon > >Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome >howcome@operasoftware.com simply a better browser >
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