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No, those problems can’t be solved this way. Your taxonomy may seem more “expressive” to you, but your five concepts are too vague to build a useful screen-read
by dfabulich 8y ago
No, those problems can’t be solved this way. Your taxonomy may seem more “expressive” to you, but your five concepts are too vague to build a useful screen-reader around. Web developers won’t use the concepts consistently; screen readers won’t interpret them consistently.
None of the relevant vendors are on board, because they’ve all considered a simpler taxonomy and rejected the idea, in favor of a richer, more complex system that can actually be implemented.
- alekssrkv 8y agoHaving these concepts exposed to the web doesn't repeal the necessary of standardization, i.e. both web developers and AT vendors has to stay in agreement on content semantics they operate with, but it will make the agreement process simpler than it's now, because it doesn't require implementation from browsers for each and every new feature. Also it will enable experimenting on the web, where web developers and AT vendors can try new things before stuffing them into standards, which should boost the accessible web.
- threatofrain 8y agoI think people have been moving away from the semantic organization because trying to properly dimensionalize the web has been so fraught.