EARL (was RE: Google Accessible Search)

Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> Until there is
> some kind of trust framework, I don't suppose that they are likely to
> generally believe a lot of metadata (historically their approach has
> been not to trust individual metadata, and it has worked as an
> anti-spam technique to a certain extent). 
> 

It occurs to me that this is where the missing-in-action EARL would
(should!) come to play, especially if there were the ability to somehow
"digitally sign" the EARL report with a trusted certificate - be it
either a "hard-core" code-signing certificate or even a light-weight PGP
or Thawte style email signing certificate - any type of 3rd party,
trusted authority certificate would suffice.  The simple fact that a
person is prepared to put their name on the line in the assertion of
"accessibility" would go a long way, IMHO, to establish that trust.

Hello EARL, where are you?

JF
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John Foliot  foliot@wats.ca
Web Accessibility Specialist
WATS.ca - Web Accessibility Testing and Services
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