- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:56:55 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > Speaking with my Google hat on for just this paragraph, I can assure you > that with Picasa Web Albums, if we offered our users the opportunity to > specify alternative text, most wouldn't use it, if we required them to > provide it, most would provide bogus text, and if we forced them to > provide useful alternative text, they would all find one of our > competitors' sites and give up on Picasa altogether. (Google hat off.) Speaking with my Picasaweb user's hat on, can you please substantiate this statement with /evidence/, not hypothesis and personal (or corporate) opinion ? I can state with 100% certainty that I not only /want/ to add ALT text, I /need/ to be able to, in order that others (not necessarily sighted) can have equal access to my portfolios. > In practice, photo sharing sites will never have alternative text > available for the vast majorty of their images. Pretending otherwise is > neither realistic nor productive. Awaiting substantiation. [remainder snipped] Philip TAYLOR
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