Re: A couple of comments

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


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Received on Wednesday, 1 December 1999 14:06:38 UTC