- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:53:42 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I see this as perhaps falling under "server-side techniques" in the WCAG WG set of labels. Should there be a requirement that if a given service has the ability to present itself in pages confomring to this best-practice document on the presuption of a vanilla reference mobile device, that that flavor of the site should be advertised and accessible to PWD on the Internet at large by a) inclusion on a site map for the home page, for instance, and b) by allowing as-for HTTP requests to elicit this particular "resource representation" where the URLs are overloaded and might be big or little pages. [or do they require URL encoding because the negotiation in HTTP metadata is not sufficiently supported in mobile device browsers?] This is the topic I had wanted to go to consumer water-cooler communities to ask: "Once upon a time there was a lively trade in blind web users passing around the URLs for the web sites cooked to be cell-phone-friendly. It turned out that these pages were pretty blind-friendly in the large. Is this practice still current? Have the big pages gotten better? Has the markup in mobile pages gotten away from standard HTML? Have the networks shut down access to the mobile-targeted pages? Or is this an ongoing practice?" Al
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