- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:38:52 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@opendesign.com>
- Cc: Paul Bohman <paulb@cpd2.usu.edu>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Charles, The summary needs to be oresented with the page illustrations, especially the topical illustration. Anne At 10:29 PM 4/22/01 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Another possiblity for an assistive technology is one that looks for the >"summary" which is in metadata, or is linked by metadata, and presents that >instead of the original page, or before the original, or as well as... > >This can be done using the Annotea system developed at W3C pretty readily. >Hopefully I will get time to produce an example next week. > >Chaals > >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Cynthia Shelly wrote: > > AP: If it's not visible, to whom is it useful anyway? > > CS: It can be used by assistive technologies designed for this group of > users, much like alt text is used by screen readers. Alt text is not > normally visible either, but it is standardized metadata (of a sort) that > works with the assistive technology used by blind users -- the screen > reader. > > One possible assistive technology would be browser add-on that showed the > summary instead (or ahead) of the non-alternative content. Hidden metadata > about a page can also be used by search engines and indexing services, so > that you could, for example, search for information about George Washington > written to a 3rd grade reading level. Another browser add-on could > automatically filter all searches for appropriate reading level. I'm sure > there are others too, but you get the idea. > > > Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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