- From: <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 01:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Reidy Brown wrote: > I'm a little surprised that no one (especially Kynn) has talked about using > server-side logic to create customized pages based on user preferences. That's because Kynn has been out of the country for more than a week. :) Last week I was at the W3C's Device Independent Workshop which very much focused on that very concept, and then at the WCAG meeting. This week I am France meeting with an Edapta partner. I firmly believe that server-side logic is the next wave in web accessibility, and I believed that even before it was the Edapta party line; in fact, I left the HWG to join Edapta _because_ they had the "right approach" -- that is to say, the techniques that I had been talking about for six months before I ever met them. :) Intelligent adaptation -- or "edaptation" as we say around the Edapta office -- is here to stay, and it's exciting to be involved with a company that is daily pushing back the frontiers of "what we can do" with the WWW. Anyway...what was the question? :) There's a strong business argument for server-side edaptation processes because it enables delivery to a multitude of device and people characteristics; accessibility for people with disabilities is simply one specific use case of this very powerful general solution which can enable cell phones, set-top boxes, television, pagers, palm-size devices, and the 21st century's "killer internet device" which hasn't been enabled yet. Server-side edaptation processes also allow for more effective and useful corporate intranets (including making the intranet accessible to employees with disabilities so they can do their jobs!) and so there's another business argument. In the future, you will see Edapta's edaptation technology integrated into available off-the-shelf web server technology solutions -- so that within 5 years, I expect to see the Edapta approach deployed on every major web site in the world and most smaller sites, revolutionizing the way that web pages are built. I guess we don't dream small at Edapta. --Kynn.fr, logging on from France
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