Re: Rules Interchange Format WG

"What makes it more likely to succeed?"

 I would consider motivation to be the important factor.  Thinking about 
motivation in terms of process theories, and inparticular Adam's Equity 
Theory, the conventional ideas around accessibility aren't particularly 
viable in terms of motivation.  The current ideas, i.e. the content provider 
has to physically deliver the content in a form the access technology 
expects, requires the content provider to be motivated to perform that task. 
Accessibility generally delivers little motivation to content providers, 
with the exceptions being those governed by legal requirements and those 
targetting access technology users.  Accessibility can involve considerable 
costs, and I'm thinking not just in terms of  financial costs, for little 
reward.  Therefore the costs can easily outweigh the rewards, and according 
to Adams this situation isn't conducive to motivating someone to perform an 
act.

 Given this apparent lack of motivation for accessibility something needs to 
change.  Accessibility can be seen to offer higher rewards, possibly through 
legal requirements, but this is likely to not result in significant coverage 
globally.  Therefore solutions need to not be dependant on the content 
provider doing something.  The work could fall to the user agent providers, 
but the motivational situation is similar there, it could fall to the access 
technology vendors, but they are lazy and stuck in a deep mental set, and so 
it has to fall to a third party to form some sort of translation layer 
between the content and the access technology.

 Will
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Received on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:57:29 UTC