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This yields other benefits. Today many sites don't pay much attention to accessibility - use of sites by people with reduced vision, for example. On a well designed site with good structure and cues, a person with disabilities can be greatly enabled, perhaps more so than people who just read a page from top to bottom. But on poorly designed sites, it can become extremely tedious or impossible to access data.  
This yields other benefits. Today many sites don't pay much attention to accessibility - use of sites by people with reduced vision, for example. On a well designed site with good structure and cues, a person with disabilities can be greatly enabled, perhaps more so than people who just read a page from top to bottom. But on poorly designed sites, it can become extremely tedious or impossible to access data.  


Well structured data using formats like RDF can allow alternative front ends for any use to be easily created, regardless of the care or competency of the source agency. A culture can be enabled with authentically more transparency and more participation.
Well structured data using formats like RDF can allow alternative front ends for any use to be easily created, regardless of the care or competency of the source agency. A culture can be enabled with authentic transparency and participation.


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