- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:11:01 -0500 (EST)
- To: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@pobox.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 09:06 AM 02/04/2001 -0800, Kynn wrote: >Hey, there's a question -- why hasn't the W3C specifically addressed >the issue of chat services over the web/Internet and the accessibility >and interoperability thereof? > >Politics, maybe? Try again... Resources. They fall under the rubric of authoring tools (quite a lot does it seems). Which is why the people who have talked about it before include the people who are chair and staff contact of the authoring tools group, I guess. As a matter of fact, that is one of the areas that the working group is sarting to look at in a bit more depth at the moment, particularly in relation to the kind of "integrated systems" that you find for doing online education, or total content management - the stuff that used to be intranet software until people started putting everything over the web. So far I am sad to say that we don't have a lot of results. It seems that IRC is a good basis to work from, since it is widely available. Looking at the accessibility of it is something I would like to have more time or information available for. (A sideline is looking at systems that include features like "virtual whiteboards" - collaborative real-time graphics creation, or audio/video telephony - this has proved very valuable in the results of an investigation as part of a project called Deaf Australia Online). Watch the Authoring Tools space (or contribute to it! <grin/>) cheers Charles McCN
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