- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Joel Sanda <joels@ecollege.com>
- cc: "'David Woolley '" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org '" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The problem with only linking to the content is that fails to achieve the purpose of having the content there in the first place - to enable someone who cannot easily understand a plain text page to have an idea of the main topics of that page. I recognise that there are concerns such as copyright and trademarking, and in some areas (like where I live) of bandwidth. There are emerging technologies in the area of the semantic Web that we should expect to use in the medium term (several years before I imagine it being deployed in browsers that have been spread into schools for example) which will provide much easier techniques for doing this. In the meantime, we are still struggling to get the principles in an agreed explanation, so we may find the technology overtakes us in development pace. Without agreed principles, or even well-expressed ones that are there as straw-man proposals, we are several steps away from being ready to address concerns of whether implementation details are so important as to negate the principle. (But I think we are making some progress, which is encouraging <grin/>) cheers Charles On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Joel Sanda wrote: Why not a link to the performer's page - many of which have song samples on the page. That won't pose copyright concerns and will keep the page uncluttered. The first bullet in 3.4 allows us to "provide a graphic equivalent or link to content that contains a graphic equivalent". Can we specify linking to any alternative content - not just graphics? Joel
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