- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:42:15 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
There is a current draft of the specification for the 'news' and 'nntp' URI schemes available as an Internet-Draft at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri-08 I have been asked to lend a voice saying that the Web needs this scheme and IETF should act to give it RFC status. Since my fingerprints are on this draft, I have an ego incentive to see the document elevated. Better I should have some facts and not just ego to base my advocacy on. This scheme allows content that arises in a newsgroup and referenced from a web page to be read as news rather than forcing the user to go through a Web interface to the newsgroup. The last time I checked, the answer came back that there is disproportionate PWD participation in News as News as opposed to the population at large. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2004JulSep/thread.html#msg356 As best I can figure out, for someone using a screen reader, the integration with the installed news-reader is significantly more usable than going through a web browser and a web gateway to the newsgroup. Is that still true? Al
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