On 19 Dec 2006, at 13:37, Brian Kelly wrote:
> Possibly we could help by setting a standard for templates
> that we manage (internal reports, etc), the advice we provide to
> authors and
> the policies we provide for our institutional repositories.
Remember King Canute?
There is NOTHING that repository managers can do to influence this,
even if they go so far as to implement a policy. And what would such
a policy look like? "We will only approve material for deposit that
conforms to accessibility guidelines?"
Don't get me wrong - I take this very seriously. But the only way to
leverage change is to engage support from the publishers. Of course,
we could always kick up political stink and insist that material
bought with public money must be "accessible". and hence put
libraries and their acquisition policies at the front line of the
battle.
But in any case, the repository is so far from the action that I
don't think it has any possible role to play.
> Could WWW 2007 provide an opportunity to engage with the
> publishers of
> the WWW2007 proceedings?- I know last year that the ACM template
> was used.
Believe me I tried that. Very hard. I managed to push through XHTML
as a required alternate submission format for WWW2006, (in the face
of strong opposition from authors). At the end of the day, the
authoring tools simply aren't good enough.
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Les
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