Folks,

as you know we are working hard to get the accessibility metadata  
organised for standardisation by ISO. In particular, I am working  
hard to ensure it is useful in the DC context, and to you. It is  
already out for public comment and the countries involved are due to  
submit their votes within the next two weeks. If you are not aware of  
all this, please consult the information already available on the DC  
Accessibility Working Group's pages (see <http://dublincore.org/ 
groups/access/>).

To prepare the draft, we did the best we could to simplify the  
information gathering that is necessary. I am writing to ask you to  
please, help us by looking at the two forms on the Web and trying to  
create metadata using them for some resources - composite, atomic,  
whatever you like. The forms are not beautiful and accessible, for  
which I apologise, but they should be good in the short term for  
feedback, if you are generous enough to help us.

The aim of asking you to try these forms is not to determine what  
interface is easiest to use etc, which will be important later, but  
to see if we can get a quick indication of how it is easiest to  
gather the information we need for the AccessForAll approach. It may  
be helpful if you would use both forms for some resources. We hope  
you can help. It might use half an hour of your time now but,  
hopefully, save hours and hours in the long term.

The forms are on my personal Website so they do the right thing and  
we can collect the data (I don't have the skills to do this any other  
way, sorry).   We are asking you to try to use real resources just so  
that you can really see if you can create the metadata - but I  
promise nothing will be done with the information you submit other  
than to see what it looks like and  how manageable it will be. You  
are welcome to use false URIs for resources, if you like, as that  
won't matter to us. We certainly will not be making a big deal of  
your ability to create metadata (or otherwise!).

It will help a lot if you can spare this time, and please, send any  
comments to me about the process or anything else you think is  
important, or, if you wish, to the list.

Form 1: http://www.ozewai.org/A4A/Draft-AP-6-1.html
Form 2: http://www.ozewai.org/A4A/Draft-AP-6-2.html

In anticipation of your help,

Liddy