- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:38:59 +0100
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Al We're in agreement about linking to neutral files. I'd like to follow on from your final comments. ... >> (BTW It's just occured to me that using a tool like Bobby >> across the web archive of this message could / should give an >> accessibility warning - with the obvious implications of what >> is a website, and can accessibility checked be turned off for >> certain areas). > >Two examples of things for which there is currently no way to do >a Bobby-like automatic check: > > - what is a site? We need site mapping / web collection metadata to define sites. Microsoft submitted a proposal on Web Collection using XML a couple of years ago. However it's now likely RDF will be used. Netscape have demonstrated a sitemap in Mozilla (see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/what-is-rdf-may1998/tools/i ap-html/sld004.htm for a screen dump - GIF only but there is a link to the text version!) Tim Berners-Lee at WWW7 talked about the need for machine-readable metadata. I think there is a need for accesibility metadata. Metadata will be important in providing personalised views of the web. If there is accessibility metadata, it should be possible to provide end users with an accessible view of a website. Similarly in a search engine a user could specify accessibility criteria and only results satisfying those criteria displayed in the results set. Is anyone working on this? I raised this at the WAI meeting in Peterborough but nobody there seemed to be involved in the metadata area. Thanks Brian ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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