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Accessibility and Metadata
Liddy NevileLa Trobe University
Summary
• Accessibility– What is it?– How does it become involved?
• Metadata– For what purposes?– How can it be used?
What is accessibility?
• Not ‘clear’ DC• Not access rights• Has political connotations• ==> generalised definition
W3C efforts in WAI
• Guidelines– Techniques– Tests– Techniques for tests– …
• Content and presentation
Other W3C developments
• Device independence• Protocols and formats• cc/pp - composite capabilities and
preferences format• HTML, XML, RDF, …• Scalable vector graphics (SVG)
W3C WAI activities..
• WCAG• ATAG• UUAG• EO• ...
ATRC
• Assistive technologies• Web4All• ==> ACCLIP (IMS Global)
– Access4All (A4A)– Best Practices Guide
• But - privacy and security?• And political correctness.
unBounded Access
• People with cognitive disabilities• The engineer use case• The non-English speaker• ….• => language characterisation,
concept languages, ...
INCITS V2
• Mission - access for everyone to everything
• The universal remote console– Use cases (scenarios)– ‘skins’– Components - manual, etc…– Language independent? flexible?
Metadata
• Purposes include:– Compliance– Quality maintenance– Discovery– Repair– Alternative equivalents
Possible solutions
• At systems level:– a metadata repository that manages
and reports on accessibility compliance (evaluation by agents and people, repair tools, corrected items library, reports, etc)
– La Trobe experiment
Possible solutions
• At metadata level:• For compliance
dc:relation:conformsTo• Needs declaration and certification and ….
– Evaluation and Repair Language (W3C)
Possible solutions
• At metadata level:• For repair dc:relation:……???
• Refers to Web services, Cascading Style Sheets, ….
• For use with assistive technologies– A4A description of user’s AT preferences
Possible solutions
• At metadata level:• For equivalent alternatives
dc:relation:isEquivalentTo• Refers to alternative modalities or different
but equivalent alternatives ….
New solutions?
• Interactive metadata• People, resources,
devices/services, events/contexts