- From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:57:55 -0400
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Gregg writes: > I like the direction here. But we need to handle > > 1- content includes structure so the word “content” is problematic here. > > 2- ascii (or Unicode) art. > > How about “information” for “content” > > Some believe structure is not information – others worry that if you > remove structure from, say, a table, its meaning changes. That would > indicate that you removed information necessary to understanding of > the content. It may be information about information but it has > semantic content. > > Otherwise I would go for > > * non-text information - information that is not represented by a > Unicode > > character or linear presentation of Unicode characters > > > If "content" is the superset of information that forms Web sites and Web applications: the code and markup that define the structure, presentation, and interaction, as well as text, images, and sounds that convey information to the end-user. In other words - all things in the delivery unit. Then, "non-text content" is a subset that includes content that is not represented by a Unicode character or sequence of Unicode characters [this does not take into account Christophe's response about Unicode and character encodings]. Or we could say that "non-text content is content that is not rendered in a Unicode character or sequence." In other words, we can distinguish non-text content from content in the effect that non-text content has on the perceivable unit [to address the issue that Jason raised yesterday]. So, I see this as parallel to "Aristotle is human therefore he is mortal" in that "non-text content is information that makes up a Web site therefore it is content." Therefore, I think it is ok to have subsets of content. If this still feels confusing we could be more specific, as UAAG 1.0 is [1] and say, In this specification, the noun "content" is used in three ways: 1. It is used to mean the document object as a whole or in parts. 2. It is used to mean the content of an HTML or XML element, in the sense employed by the XML 1.0 specification ([XML], section 3.1): "The text between the start-tag and end-tag is called the element's content." Context should indicate that the term content is being used in this sense. 3. It is used in the terms non-text content and text content. Thoughts? --w [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/glossary.html#def-content> -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--
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