- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:16:22 +1100
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Scott Luebking writes: > Hi, > > I agree that there probably won't be a universal solution which > consists of some combination of multiple versions of a web page > and some sets of transformations on certain versions of the > that web page. Of course the ultimate extrapolation of the "multiple versions" phenomenon consists in "final-form" languages where the server generates a highly presentational format based on user/user-agent preferences. If you are arguing that there is no number (n) of final forms that can be delivered by such a process that would satisfy the need for accessibility then this would suggest the principle that any "final-form" versions must be accompanied by at least one alternative, semantically rich version, made available for processing further downstream (by the user agent, a proxy or other applicable software). If this conclusion is correct (and I don't have time to argue the point this evening), then it should presumably be incorporated into the conformance scheme (i.e., it is permissible to provide multiple, including final-form versions and these may indeed enhance accessibility, but at least one semantically rich version should nonetheless be available satisfying checkpoints 1.3 & 1.5).
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