- From: (unknown charset) Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
- To: (unknown charset) Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- cc: (unknown charset) Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, gv@trace.wisc.edu, "GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Here's a link to my half-finished RDF interface to WordNet., entry for Eagle. RDF's hierarchical type system thinks of this as the class of things Eagle, which is a sub-class of the class Bird_of_prey. http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Eagle (and XML/RDF file describing entries in the system above and immediately below Eagle). I hope to fix this (currently I confuse WordNet synonym-sets with the terms that constitute them, which creates a broken type hierarchy) and make it widely known. In meantime, more on WordNet available at http://cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ (framed site, sadly) Dan On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > There are metadata dicitionaries around that describe words in terms of > subclasses - eagle is a subclass of birds of prey, which is a subclass of > birds, etc. > > These things are all in RDF, and should therefore be able to have a > URI. Which would enable us to use RDF to link keywords, meanings, and > illustrations. > > Which means we could build tools to add this kind of stuff. (Kynn's magic > dream tool...) > > cheers > > Charles McCN > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote: > > At 02:02 PM 4/30/00 -0500, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >Marti's comment got me thinking about drawing parallels to other > >disabilities and what we do there. > > > >Adding visual descriptions of pictures is adding something to a page that > >was not there. Could something equivalent be done for cognitive access? > >Two things that are true for LONGDESCs (and ALT) are > >1) it doesn't affect the appearance of the page for mass users > >2) it is fairly easy to describe how to do it (though quality will obviously > >vary) > >3) it takes 1% to 5% of the effort (or less) to put the page/site together > >to do it. > > > > > >so putting these together let me coin a term ALTCOGPRES (Alternative > >Cognitive Presentation) > >is there a way we can come up with a *straightforward*, *easy to describe* > >and *easy to do* technique for presenting information on a page in an > >alternate form that > >1) doesn't affect the appearance of the page for mass users > >2) is fairly easy to describe how to do it > >3) takes 1% to 5% of the effort (or less) to put the page/site together to > >do it. > > > > > Some more brainstorming: > > SMIL already has an abstract attribute for some elements. Maybe that could > be one way of adding information of major components of content as well as > the whole page. Short simple text could help also users with small screen > devices. > > If I have interpreted the demands right, the TTS should work with these > alternative attributes (If they don't has anyone told the TTS developers > that?) or there should be also an audio version of them. Then similar info > should be also presented with images. Or maybe the abstract should always > contain a clarifying image? > > Then it would be nice also to have a simple explanation of the navigational > structure of the site that could be attached to each page. This could help > many other users too. > > Marja > > >Gregg > > > > > > > >-- ------------------------------ > >Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. > >Professor - Human Factors > >Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. > >Director - Trace R & D Center > >Gv@trace.wisc.edu, http://trace.wisc.edu/ > >FAX 608/262-8848 > >For a list of our listserves send “lists” to listproc@trace.wisc.edu > > > > > > > -- > 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 > Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia >
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