- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:58:13 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "Denis Boudreau (WebConforme)" <dboudreau@webconforme.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > Why is it that you have access to data ((Source: Unpublished Google > internal survey of several billion pages conducted in September 2006.) > from an unpublished survey that you can quote seletively to back up your > arguments against the inclusion of accessibility related attributes, but > other members of the group who are trying to argue for their continued > inclusion cannot draw on and interpret the same data for the benefit of > thier arguments? He asked me for the data on IRC. Feel free to catch me (Hixie) on IRC when I'm at work and if I have the data I can provide it. > Why not provide access to the data to all members of the working group > rather than pulling out selective results to benefit a particular > argument? For commercial reasons, I can't publish the raw data. Some of the sanitised data from earlier studies is at: http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html ...but it's long overdue for an update. I'll see what I can do. It would be cool if other members of the group with similar resources could publish similar studies; relying on just one set of proprietary numbers that have been sanitised for public consumption is certainly better than nothing but it's a far cry from ideal. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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