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CC/PP stands for Composite Capabilities/Preferences Profile, and is a system for expressing device capabilities and user preferences. With CC/PP, a user with a specific preference, or disability-related need can clarify that even though their browser handles millions of colours, they personally can only distinguish certain colours. Or, perhaps the user navigates exclusively with a keyboard or stylus. Why do we need CC/PP? With the growing popularity of ubiquitous Web devices spread across such a broad range of media and bandwidth, authoring for the

When expressing device capabilities, the strength of CC/PP is that it has the flexibility HTTP content negotiation lacks. Far from simply defining a fixed set of preferences that would be used to build device profiles, the RDF-based framework also allows the creation of whole vocabularies, making the expression of device and agent capability, as well as user preference, infinitely extensible. Using CC/PP, creators of Web devices and user agents can easily define precise profiles for their products. Web servers and proxies can use these profiles to