- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:44:07 +0200
- To: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I suspect there is no information that is "essential" for accessibility. There are some useful things that could be put there - common Dublin Core metadata is one, a link to an EARL statement (giving more detailed conformance information than an icon does) is another. (I link to RDF rather than including it in anything, as a rule). At the WCAG meeting taking place tomorrow and the next day I hope this will get some discussion... cheers Chaals On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 08:26 Europe/Zurich, Matthew Smith wrote: > > Hi All > > Can anyone give me an indication of what metadata is actually > essential for accessibility as opposed to merely desirable? > (Checkpoint 13.2 - > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-use-metadata ) > > As regards the actual format, should I use Dublin Core? I've had a > look over RDF ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/ ) which looks > great if one is working in pure XML, which I'm not. (I am using > XHTML, but served as text/html for compatibility with XML-unaware > browsers.) > > My current application is a community directory ( > http://www.community-connect.net ); all pages are generated > on-the-fly. Should I on, say, the search page, produce the same > metadata whether I am displaying the default page, a shortlist or the > final record, or should I produce different metadata for each? > > Cheers > > M > > -- > Matthew Smith > Kadina Business Consultancy > South Australia > http://www.kbc.net.au > > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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