David Huynh wrote:
> We actually have an "importer" that can grab data out of an inline HTML 
> table...
> That's been around for maybe 2 years, but it hasn't gotten much use. 
> That's why I'm skeptical about the idea of humans managing structured 
> data within HTML.
>   

Thanks for the reminder.

> Another point of skepticism is that--I think--authors don't usually 
> think of their audience as being composed of progressively more capable 
> individuals.

[snip]

> When an exhibit starts to get more and more audience, 
> its author might start to think about investing efforts in 
> accessibility--because only then does accessibility have good ROI.
>   

You started this thread with a desire to make Exhibit pages visible to 
the likes of Google.  You have to think of Google like a human with 
accessibility issues.  It only thinks in terms of the structure of the 
text.  If you present your data as a HTML table it won't be able to work 
out the relative importance of one string to another.  For SEO (Search 
Engine Optimization) purposes you *have* to use the hierarchical headers 
h1, h2 etc.

It looks to me like it is an impossible goal to let ordinary 
non-technical people write an exhibit page that works *and* ranks well 
on Google!

Regards,
David Legg


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