- From: Lynn Alford <lynn.alford@jcu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:42:19 +1000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 12:03 PM 19/05/2005 +0930, Matthew Smith wrote: >Lynn Alford replied: >> >>Search engines work better on sites with an accessible design. > >Matthew comments: > > >Maybe we should think beyond the "ordinary browser" that does little more >than make a literal representation of content provided and consider the >existence - present or future - of software agents that actually try to >make sense of the content and perform further processing on it before >passing it on to the user (we're getting into the realms of Semantic Web >here). Lynn has provided us with a perfect example: search engines. If a >page cannot be understood by a search engine and therefore be found, is it >accessible? I would say that hidden does not equal accessible. Actually, when trying to teach an audience why accessibility is important, I usually tell them "What important user visiting your site is blind, and can't do javascript or frames? A search engine." That's usually a good way to emphasis that accessible design has many benefits. Lynn
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