- From: lisa seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:47:06 +0200
- To: <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Requiring use of a publicly available lexicon designed for simple language, and use each word according to its definition, is a special case of recommending a controlled language, or at least very close to it. I think we are all on the same page, drawing the same line, but perhaps in different places - do we want to be more flexible and user friendly for the author or more useful to user agents. We can probably be both with the right wording.. All the best Lisa Seeman Visit us at the UB Access website UB Access - Moving internet accessibility -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jason White Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:19 AM To: Charles McCathieNevile Cc: lisa seeman; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: [lexical (+ contextual) clarification] Re: proposal 3: checkpoint 3.3 If there were an extended checkpoint or success criterion that said: A controlled language is used. Surely that would be testable, for it could be determined whether the author has consistently abided by rules governing vocabulary and syntax that are intended to enhance comprehension. The guidelines need not, and, I would argue, should not prescribe those rules relative to any given natural language or type of content; references to applicable standards could then be given in techniques. Independently of the question whether there should be an extended checkpoint specifying the use of a "controlled language", I think there is little doubt that it could be made testable, its being required that (1) there exist a standard or other definition of a controlled language to which the content author has decided to conform; and (2) the content does in fact conform to it. In fact it might even be machine testable if there is a generative grammar for the required syntax and a list of permissible vocabulary; and before anybody asks, it is a fundamental insight of modern linguistics, as I understand it, that the syntax of every natural language can be described by a generative grammar.
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