- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:50:13 +0200 (MEST)
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Loose comments... > In the fall of 2003, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative > (WAI) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) > conducted a series of usability tests [...] ...and every usability consultant and/or company linking to a page where you already are [1] is inconceivably credible (that's almost always the first that catches my eye). I cannot resist -- it's unbelievable what professionals don't know the basics of their domain, CMIIW. > Thus, it seems less an issue of formatting the links and > more an issue of writing good link text. ACK, some findings definitely confirm this. By the way, maybe you remember LSA (Latent Semantics Analysis), a rather scientific method calculating the familiarity of links (by determining the vector length of a term) [2]? Though, I think that stuff (including CWW [3]) is /really/ scientific ;) Best regards, Jens. [1] http://www.air.org/concord/wai/index.html [2] http://autocww.colorado.edu/HomePage.html [3] http://psych.colorado.edu/~blackmon/CWW.html -- Jens Meiert Interface Architect (IxD) http://meiert.com/
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