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Support Adaptation and Personalization

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Introduction

Personalization can enable us to meet the individual user’s preferences. Some users need extra support which we can provide with minimal effort from the user via personalization. Personalization allows the user to select preferred options from a set of alternatives. Some alternatives may be provided by the content author or app developer and others may be semi automated. This can include:

Personalization also helps with the following:

One use-case we would like to see is providing interoperable symbol set codes for non-verbal users. Products for people who are non-vocal often use symbols to help users communicate. These symbols are in fact a language. Unfortunately, many of these symbols are both subject to copywrite and are not interoperable. That means end-users can only use one device, and can-not use apps or AT from a different company. An open set of references for symbol codes for these symbol sets however, could be interoperable. That means the end user could use an open source symbol set or buy the symbols and use them across different devices or applications. Symbols could still be proprietary but they would also be interoperable.

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This is an unpublished draft preview that might include content that is not yet approved. The published website is at w3.org/WAI/.