- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:40:26 +1000 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
To address an important issue raised by Gregg at last week's meeting, I would like to propose the following amendment to Principle 2: "Separate content and structure from presentation, and ensure that significant structural or semantic distinctions are captured explicitly in markup, or in a data model." This change should be self-explanatory. The guidelines grouped under Principle 3 set forth the requirements in detail and attempt to furnish criteria with which to identify "significant" distinctions that need to be preserved. A note could be added to guideline 5 of Principle 3, stating that it may be advantageous to preserve additional semantic distinctions for the benefit of search engines and other data processing applications. In effect, this would be an allusion to the concept of a "semantic web", and would also show that a semantically rich markup scheme or data representation has benefits that extend far beyond "accessibility".
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