- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:54:17 -0800
- To: "Steve Carter" <steve@juggler.net>, "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 4:21 PM +0000 1/28/02, Steve Carter wrote: >When I started getting into web accessibility it immediately >occurred to me how useful it would be for there to be some standard >strings that could be inserted in the user-agent-string so for >example instead of >Mozilla/4.04 (Win95; I) >you would have >Mozilla/4.04 (Win95; I; ; IMP-CONT IMP-AUD) >and the person building the web application could easily code in >quick work arounds for any tricky accessibilty cases. A quick >brainstorm suggests >IMP-CONT - the user requests high contrast output >IMP-COLx - the user is colourblind (x denotes the type of impairment) >IMP-AUD - the user cannot reliably use auditory senses so please use visual >IMP-VIS - the user is not able to perceive visual output >Is anybody doing work in this direction? This is the kind of thing which you could use the CC/PP framework to build. See the W3C homepage for a link to CC/PP, or look at my old, out-of-date essay at http://www.ccpp.org/. This is also a topic of discussion among the Device Independent Working Group at W3C. --Kynn PS: Yes, I know that -current- CC/PP vocabularies don't contain these, but I believe the framework established by CC/PP for creating such vocabularies is quite useful for accessibility. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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