- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:49:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Bonner, Matt (IPG)" <matt.bonner@hp.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Trimming cc list. On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Bonner, Matt (IPG) wrote: >> >> What data would you like me to collect? > > Well, the data from a web crawl that seem germane would be along the > lines of percentages of images for the oft-mentioned three cases: > > . have no alt attribute > . have an alt="" > . have an alt="(a descriptive string)" > > Obviously that still gives you no sense how often the alt text is > useful, but it's a start. A start towards what? As I said to Karl, before I spend money on this, I'd really like to know what hypothesis we are testing. > One could imagine trying to run algorithms against the alt text to get a > sense of the frequency of useful alt text, but that sounds more like > research than data collection. Not sure the alt-trust-level value can be > determined algorithmically. ;-) [...] Indeed, anything that requires human intervention isn't something I can do without significant help. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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