- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:28:21 +1000
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Thanks for doing this, btw. I think being informed by real-world data is important. Silvia. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: the sampling was not random it was an intentional sampling of the top 10,000 web site home pages. > > There is some leakage of internal pages from such web sites. > > I am not and have not claimed any level of appropriateness of the sampling I have just made some new data available > > As I said draw your own conclusions > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 19 Sep 2012, at 11:11, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Joshue O Connor >> <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> wrote: >>>> I did not have time too look through it, but those I looked at either >>>> contained only a "#" or they contained (another) image file. With >>>> regard to the first (#) then I agree "misinformed" about the potential >>>> negative effect. With regard to image URLs inside @longdesc, then there >>>> are image light box solutions - libraries - that more or less >>>> consciously makes incorrect use of longdesc. (Today they would perhaps >>>> picked at @data-foo attribute instead - but that was not 'valid' then.) >>>> Of the few I scanned, no one contained text. >>> >>> >>> Yikes, maybe it is the former Silvia. Thanks for doing that Leif. It does >>> therefore sound like an inappropriate sample population or at least >>> partially so. >> >> How does the reason why longdesc was misused make it in an >> inappropriate sample population for client software developers trying >> to make a decision about whether to expose longdesc via UI to their >> users? >> >> (My problem with these approaches to sampling is that randomly >> sampling the web corpus doesn't match the pattern of usage by typical >> users, it just tells you about long tail effects, so the relationship >> with user impact is unclear.) >> >> -- >> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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