Re: Assertion "tool"

In fact there was a metadata scheme using PICS that was written to do this in
early 1999, and a scheme to produce RDF from PICS is described in teh W3C
Note http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-pics

cheers

Charles

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Sean B. Palmer wrote:

  > >   Since it is on the agenda then we might want to recommend that WCAG
  2.0
  > >   provide a spot for it in the guidelines?
  > >   Specifically that there be a "placeholder" sort of thing that deals
  with
  > >   making a conformance assertion in order to be conformant?
  >
  > I propose we copy the conformance section from WCAG 1.0 as a start on
  this.
  > (Note that this is an endorsement of that system, against the strawman put
  up
  > that had a simple yes/no scheme).

  Ages ago I proposed something like this to WAI IG, based on what Mr.
  Loughborough had been talking about on RDF IG (whilst I was developing
  swi-dev type stuff). I wasn't a WAI member at the time, and it went
  completely unnoticed...now it is being raised again, I've dug up the URI:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2000OctDec/0324.html

  The guideline suggestions I made back then still appear to stand, but they
  would have to be less technologically oriented for WCAG 2.0

  For those that don't know, Charles is talking about this section:-
  [[[
  Claims of conformance to this document must use one of the following two
  forms.
  Form 1:
  The guidelines title: "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
  The guidelines URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505
  The conformance level satisfied: "A", "Double-A", or "Triple-A".
  The scope covered by the claim (e.g., page, site, or defined portion of a
  site.).
  ]]] - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#conformance

  All we need are as many different ways as possible for expressing that (a
  techniques thing), i.e. in HTML and RDF. Notice that I already gave two
  examples in the note that I wrote, and that we have online examples of RDF.
  Also, when ADL is created, we could use that: in *whatever* form it takes
  on.

  Kindest Regards,
  Sean B. Palmer
  http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF]
  "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
     - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.


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