- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 16:00:13 -0800
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
There are three main things that obstruct Web Access: The HTML (or whatever else might be used) of the web sites; the browser; the screen reader (I am restricting this missive to visual impairment access). While we often discuss the latter two it seems that the area with which we have (I think rightly) the most concern is the first and that is what one of the Working Groups has come up with guidelines and checklists, etc. for. My question: which of the (particularly the REQUIRED) guide lines is amenable to some form of automation, be it a proxy server or a client side filter? In the authoring group we have discussed the possibility of "default ALT-tags" but that seems about as likely as a photo reader that is as good as an OCR (and we all know that those are far from perfect, though now much better than voice recognition, e.g.). In other words not something that a handful of volunteers is likely to succeed with. What about some of the other REQUIRED things? If anything can be solved by any form of agent, as apparently is possible with HTML validators that can convert formatting to CSS use, etc. it would behoove us to get those over and done with. My guess is that we will be left with the thorniest of stuff, yet it is that which sets humans apart, a conscious requirement to do those things that machines cannot (yet?) do. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE http://dicomp.pair.com
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