Here's my major comments: it is very difficult, if not impossible, to
choose a word that is "safe"
on search engines that won't let you turn off stemming. That is, on
The Microsoft Network and
The Microsoft Developer Network, searching for "accessibility" yields
everything with "access"
in it, and searching for "disability" finds everything with "disable"
or "disabled" in it (most of
which are not related to disabilties), etc. There is currently no way
to turn off that option, because
it is a decision made when the index is compiled. It is very useful
for most of the people most of the
time, but in specific cases like this it is a real problem, and one
that I have not been able to solve.
One can imagine that even resorting to "handicap" would still find
everything on the web related to
horse-racing and similar sports.
Greg Lowney
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From: David Andrews <dandrews@winternet.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <nfb-rd@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
Subject: Clarification of Yesterday's "Keyword" Survey (fwd)
Date: Saturday, January 13, 1996 5:27AM
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:50:05 EST
From: paciello@SHANE.ENET.DEC.COM
To: Multiple recipients of list EASI <EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Subject: Clarification of Yesterday's "Keyword" Survey
I've already had several responses to my disabilities "keyword" survey sent out
yesterday. I'd like to clarify a couple of minor details.
1. This is strictly disabilities and/or accessibility related. So, if the
keyword you have chosen does not fit that category, toss it out.
2. I am not looking for a keyword for each kind of disability or functional
limitation. Rather, I am looking for the most common term that describes the
majority of disability and accessibility related subjects. One single word
that you are most likely to do a search on as a category for all
disability/accessibility related information.
3. This one word limitation should not be viewed as some new internet or
world wide web restriction; rather, it's simply a single web page design
style enforced by the webmasters in order to keep the size of the Web homepage
to a minimum. After that, links to all the various disabilities will be
included.
I want to be sure I capture the single most popular word that you (and others)
are most likely to search on in order to capture the page.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Mike Paciello
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