- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:06:09 -0500
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- CC: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Scott Luebking wrote: > > Hi, Ian > > I was thinking that the section called "User interface issues" > was discussing issues to keep in mind in terms of user interfaces. > A challenge in the user interface world is handling dynamic > presentation of information based on the semantic content rather than > the syntactic structure. Computers can do syntactic transformation > rather easily since they need not understand the semantic meaning > of the information. However, what blind users will benefit more from > will be interfaces which can also understand the semantic nature > of the information and make appropriate choices on that basis. > How it will be done is a challenge. We need "The Semantic Web", and yours is a great argument for it. Read up on Tim Berners-Lee's roadmap of the Semantic Web [1]. -Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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