- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:55:33 +1100 (EST)
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > But if we say "expressed in 50 words or less" someone will ask where the > number 50 came from. > > But all limits are eventually arbitrary. > > Anyone want to nominate a nice objective number so this is testable? A further problem: the number of words that is reasonable will vary by language. I suggest that if you want to be precise, state a requirement which doesn't specify an arbitrary, language-specific number. For example "the number of words comprising 5 sentences of average length", where the average length is computed by reference to the text of the content. Yes there's still an arbitrary number here, but it isn't so language-dependent and makes the length relative to the complexity of the remainder of the content. I am sure others can come up with more creative proposals.
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