Re: the discussion on how to measure conformance

Claus -- very good points.  I especially like the idea of asking for
whose benefit the logos are meant.

A good way to do this would be to design our WCAG guidelines specifically
for use as not only a "logo" (which is really the crudest form of
compliance) but also as a detailed RDF statement.

RDF -- for those of you who aren't familiar with it -- is basically
like meta tags on steroids.  They're a way of conveying meta information
(information about information) using a standardized markup scheme
which supports a variety of vocubularies.

Using RDF, a site (or a page) could be labeled with a specific,
detailed compliance rating.  This could be read by the browser and
information passed along to the user as appropriate -- for example,
doing a query when hitting a site to determine if it is accessible
to the user's needs.

Additionally, the RDF itself could be converted to something visual
using XSLT (since it's just an XML-derived language), and there is
no reason that a textual or logo compliance claim could co-exist
with an RDF compliance claim.

--Kynn

PS:  I think William likes RDF.  I just get that feeling.
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Sunday, 22 October 2000 14:34:26 UTC