introductions - Liddy Nevile

I have rejoined W3C work recently and some do not know me so here is a  
brief intro.

I was first involved in W3C way back in the early PICS work and then  
when W3C first thought about accessibility and we formed the early WAI  
working groups etc. I have been involved in Web accessibility since  
then, and convened the OZeWAI Conference each year in Australia for  
many years.

I have an interest in what we now call AccessForAll accessibility -  
the matching of an individual's needs and preferences with the  
accessibility characteristics of a resource. The problems have been  
how to describe the needs and preferences, the resource  
characteristics, and to do the matching - all depending on WCAG  
compliant content being available somewhere. I see this as important  
extension work for the likes of WCAG. It is, of course, metadata work  
and follows my forever interest in RDF.

I also think that ATAG is seriously important and should get far more  
focus than it does, say in Australia.

My interest in the Task Group for cognitive disabilities has been  
about for a long time. This is a tricky but important area and has not  
yet had the attention it needs.

My declared interest in Globish, just voluntary, comes about from an  
interest in the benefit of having a 'small' version of English that  
can be used by people who find big vocabularies and complex grammar  
difficult, people who have limited control of English for other  
reasons, and may need publishers to use an agreed pivot language so  
content can be converted to their comms form more accurately.

I am Australian and happen to be the mother of Chaals, Charles Nevile  
as I know him. I am a retired academic and grandmother.

Liddy

Received on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:41:42 UTC