- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:33:59 +1100 (EST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At the face to face meeting in Melbourne Lisa mentioned the semantic-pragmatic issue, whereby certain cognitive disabilities lead to difficulty in understanding or appreciating metaphorical language. Clearly this is a disability-related issue and as such should be taken into account in our guidelines (my previous message was in no way intended to exclude it from consideration). Obviously the semantic-pragmatic issue arises under checkpoint 3.3. It would be impracticable to require everyone (in all web content) to avoid metaphorical language altogether; but through the guidelines they should at least become aware of this particular issue so that they can assess the consequences of using language in certain ways and decide whether or not to avoid doing so.
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