- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:06:51 -0700
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough)
- Cc: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 06:08 AM 11/2/2000 , William Loughborough wrote: >Perhaps everything else is "technique" but providing uncluttered access to the underlying semantics is a basic principle and should be expressed in guidelines. In fact it may be what the guidelines are all about. Please clarify what exactly you mean, as we have different technical audiences with different technical approaches to the problem. If by "uncluttered access to the underlying semantics" you mean that the site provider must provide the structured data model that they use on their site to the end user and/or her user agent, then I could not possibly disagree with you more. The issue is access to the content. A method which provides that is our goal. One way to do that is to simply send the data model. It is not the only way, and I find it bizarre, from a technological point of view, that you are insisting that this be a requirement. It is the equivalent of saying that all database-driven sites should allow direct read-only access to the database. That makes little-to-no sense and loses track of what our goal is. Our goal is to set it up so more people can use the web and nobody is denied access. Our goal is not to see some sort of W3C utopian vision of data models come about. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
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