- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:47:06 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
As a possible clarification of the purpose and method by which indexing will enable the so-called "Semantic Web" I found this quote from Tim Berners-Lee that points towards what we might do: "The concept of machine-understandable documents does not imply some magical artificial intelligence which allows machines to comprehend human mumblings. It only indicates a machine's ability to solve a well-defined problem by performing well-defined operations on existing well-defined data. Instead of asking machines to understand people's language, it involves asking people to make the extra effort" The "extra effort" that we're calling for is to produce "well-defined data". The payback for the extra effort is what all my "mumblings" about including metadata in stuff published on the Web have been about. Making stuff machine-accessible will make accessibility much more achievable. That a Semantic Web's possibility is enhanced by the principles in the guidelines and the tools we furnish to assure their implementation is clear. As the immortal Charles "Yardbird" Parker wrote "Now Is the Time!" -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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