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From: Paul Collins
Date: Aug 7, 2007 11:40AM

Thanks for your replies everyone. I have learned quite a bit today...
Those links were very insightful Christophe, I never thought that
there was that small amount of support for meta tags.

So I guess, the WAI guideline, being as ambiguous as it is could
really refer to setting the language and character set anyway?

13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.

Thanks for all your help today!


On 07/08/07, Charge D Wise < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Some search engines will still use the description text when your site is
> returned in their results but keywords are pretty much dead. As for Dublin
> Core I have used them a few times but not often or recently for that matter.
> I no longer maintain that site and the person who took over after I fired
> that client was so clueless the site wasn't usable for anyone for a long
> time.
>
> Cheryl D Wise
> MS MVP FrontPage
> http://by-expression.com
> http://starttoweb.com
> Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Collins
>
>
> Thanks for your reply Jukka, that was very interesting to hear your
> thoughts. So, would not even the Keywords and description metatags
> have any use anymore?
>
> The main reason I had got into this is the site I am on currently
> needs to meet Priority 2 of WCAG 1; hence the guideline:
>
> 13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.
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