- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:06:52 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>, <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
In fact there was a metadata scheme using PICS that was written to do this in early 1999, and a scheme to produce RDF from PICS is described in teh W3C Note http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-pics cheers Charles On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > Since it is on the agenda then we might want to recommend that WCAG 2.0 > > provide a spot for it in the guidelines? > > Specifically that there be a "placeholder" sort of thing that deals with > > making a conformance assertion in order to be conformant? > > I propose we copy the conformance section from WCAG 1.0 as a start on this. > (Note that this is an endorsement of that system, against the strawman put up > that had a simple yes/no scheme). Ages ago I proposed something like this to WAI IG, based on what Mr. Loughborough had been talking about on RDF IG (whilst I was developing swi-dev type stuff). I wasn't a WAI member at the time, and it went completely unnoticed...now it is being raised again, I've dug up the URI: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2000OctDec/0324.html The guideline suggestions I made back then still appear to stand, but they would have to be less technologically oriented for WCAG 2.0 For those that don't know, Charles is talking about this section:- [[[ Claims of conformance to this document must use one of the following two forms. Form 1: The guidelines title: "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" The guidelines URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505 The conformance level satisfied: "A", "Double-A", or "Triple-A". The scope covered by the claim (e.g., page, site, or defined portion of a site.). ]]] - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#conformance All we need are as many different ways as possible for expressing that (a techniques thing), i.e. in HTML and RDF. Notice that I already gave two examples in the note that I wrote, and that we have online examples of RDF. Also, when ADL is created, we could use that: in *whatever* form it takes on. Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07. -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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