Fwd: XML Accessibility Guidelines

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

If you happen to visit my website, you will discover that 
Accessibiity is one of the issues I pay attention to, so I am 
forwarding this notice. This is something we need to stay abreast of.

Ciao,
Rex

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>From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
>Subject: XML Accessibility Guidelines
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>[on behalf of Daniel Dardailler, danield@w3.org]
>
>Hello
>
>The W3C WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) invites review
>and comments on the XML Accessibility Guidelines first public working
>draft:
>
>Published at:
>         http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlgl
>
>Dated version at:
>         http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlgl-20010829
>
>See the review process details in the document status (reproduced
>below).
>
>Thanks.
>
>Abstract
>========
>
>This document explains how to design accessible applications using
>XML, the Extensible Markup Language. Compared to the HTML or MathML
>languages, XML is one level up: it is a meta syntax used to describe
>these languages, as well as new ones. As a meta syntax, XML provides
>no intrinsic guarantee of device independence or textual alternate
>support. It is essential, therefore, that XML formats and tools
>designers are provided with guidelines that explain how to include
>basic accessibility features - such as those present in HTML, SMIL,
>and SVG - in all their new developments.
>
>Status of this document
>=======================
>
>This document is a Working Draft made available by the WAI Protocols
>and Formats Working Group (PFWG), for review by W3C members and other
>interested parties. The PF group operates as part of the WAI Technical
>Activity.
>
>Depending on the feedback received, this document may become a W3C
>Note, be integrated in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines suite
>(e.g as a technique for XML) or enter its own Recommendation track.
>
>Please send comments about the content of this document and how you
>would like to see it evolving to the publicly archived mailing list:
>    wai-tech-comments@w3.org.
>Comments on this version can be sent until September 31th, 2001. Send
>minor editorial comments directly to the editors.
>
>Publication of this document does not imply endorsement by the W3C,
>its membership or its staff. This is a draft document and may be
>updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
>inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as reference material or to
>cite them as other than "work in progress". A list of current W3C
>technical reports and publications, including working drafts and
>notes, can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
>
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