- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:13:31 -0400
- To: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
- Cc: Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines Mailing List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
in a recent post to the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines emailing list, with the subject line quote "Primary Content", etc. - Response to Ian Jacobs unquote, Eric Hansen wrote: quote Correct. Though, in the corrected memo, I use the term "secondary content" instead of "alternative content". unquote there is nothing "secondary" about the content -- it is alternative content... primary content is: (a) that which is received in the modality of choice of the user (we are, after all speaking of USER agents here);and (b) primary content is nothing more than the message being conveyed regardless of the markup being used to communicate that message, be it an image, a table, a string of text, or a script... i strenuously object to any such classification of content along the lines of "primary" and "secondary" -- like it or not, it implies an objective (albeit fallacious) hierarchy of importance, based upon a purely phenomenological interpretation of content... the only reasonable terms that i can think of is "author-provided content" and "alternative equivalent content" -- which has the advantage of being phenomenologically neutral, as the author-provided content might be straight text with a graphical equivalent (a graphical tooltip, as it were), or an aural equivalent for either/and/or a string of text or a graphic... gregory. ------------------------------------------------ The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it is. ------------------------------------------------ Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> Webmaster & Minister of Propaganda The Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of the New York City Metropolitan Area (VICUG NYC) <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/> ------------------------------------------------
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