- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:30:37 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
From time to time it has come up that the Web Characterization Activity produced a document setting out some concepts and vocabulary. Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet http://www.w3.org/1999/05/WCA-terms/ This is an excellent practice. But the view of "what the Web is" that is set out in that document is not quite so excellent. It is not a fit reference platform on which to build what we have to say about the Web. Contrast the view of the Web set out there with the one in HCI Fundamentals and PWD Failure Modes http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/ud4grid/#_Toc495220368 Tim Berners-Lee was kind enough to include some of the ideas in the latter reference in his remarks to the recent Technical Plenary. If we don't look at the Web as an iterative process where each cycle of many closes through the comprehension of the user, we don't describe what makes the Web great, and we don't have enough context in view to build an accessible-by-construction Web architecture. We need to be working on a device-independent characterization of the Web as a process that iterates through many cycles through some human-computer interface as part of its essential or characteristic mode of operation. Al
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