>There are people who upload literally thousands of photos a week. If a >photo takes one minute to describe, which is probably optimisic, that's >two full days' worth of work per week just to describe the photos. That's >not happening. Even people who upload 10 photos a month don't care enough >to describe their photos. > >You might be able to get some people to describe some of the most popular >photos, but there's no way that's going to scale to all photos on all >photo galleries, so the problem of what to do with photos that have no >useful alternative text will always exist. > >-- >Ian Hickson Which is a good reason why alt text needs to be required by this spec (HTML5). People will continue to commit crimes and break the law........but it that a reason not to have them? * katie * Katie Haritos-Shea Section 508 Technical Policy Analyst 703-371-5545 People may forget exactly what it was that you said or did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.......Received on Friday, 11 April 2008 20:55:14 GMT
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