Re: Documents now public

Tom,

Please read www.w3.org/wai/pf/roadmap.

Rich

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At 02:26 AM 10/3/2005, Lisa Seeman wrote:
>The roles and adaptable properties drafts are now public. ...

Thanks, but the announcement was a bit cryptic. I assume you want people
other than those who wrote the document to comment on it and so you need to

tell us what it is and why we should read it.

I suggest including the name of the document in the subject line of future
announcements and quote a paragraph from the document's introduction in the

message body to explain what it is for. The full title of the document
should be included next to the URL in the announcement. That way the reader

would know enough about it to decide if they should click on the link.

As it is, even after clicking on the link I still couldn't quite work out
what the document is about. You might want to separate the content into a
short technical specification and a longer explanatory document.

These may seem like trivial grumbles from someone who does not appreciate
the hard work by the authors. But that work will be wasted if few people
(outside a small circle) read it and even fewer understand it.

ps: For those wondering, these are comments on "Role Taxonomy for
Accessible Adaptable Applications - An RDF Role taxonomy with Qname support

for Accessible Adaptable XML Applications", W3C Working Draft 25 August
2005 <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/GUI/roleTaxonomy-20050825>).

pps: But then perhaps I am just not very bright. I have a student who says
they can build an e-archive using the semantic web for the museums of the
South Pacific <http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/emuseums/>. They have discovered

the hard part is not building the archive, but explaining what the semantic

web is.  ;-)



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