RE: [html4all] HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

Steven Faulkner wrote:
> A section of Ian hickson's comment on "HTML5 Alternative Text, and
> Authoring Tools": 
> 
> "We truly do believe in research, hard data, and analysis, rather
> than hypotheticals; and we truly do believe that evidence suggests
> that what we are arguing for is going to improve the accessibility of
> the Web."   
> 
> http://juicystudio.com/article/html5-alt-text-authoring-tools.php#comment2
> 
> 
> Please show us the evidence.

I have been asking for 'evidence' since September of 2007: 
[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Sep/0019.html]

JF