Re: An approach suggestion - ways to test qualitative content

This thread is on the public-silver-editors list, but it seems 
substantive, not administrative, and therefore should be moved to the 
public-silver list so the rest of the group can participate. Michael

On 21/10/2021 5:46 a.m., Wilco Fiers wrote:
> Hey Alistair,
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> Thanks for putting this together. I think you and I are roughly on the 
> same line on how such testing could work. I'd be interested to learn 
> your thoughts on testing in context. Take your two dogs image example. 
> "Two dogs running after a ball" may be a pretty good description for 
> it, but "Bob and Jack playing during vacation" may very well be a good 
> alternative too, depending on the context. How do you enable testing 
> such things, without making the test extremely permissive?
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> I think having a big dataset to train machine learning algorithms on 
> for testing accessibility would be a great boon to the world. I'm not 
> sure how we'd go about developing such a thing, or if that is 
> necessarily connected to the development of WCAG 3 itself.
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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:07 PM Alistair Garrison 
> <alistair.garrison@accesseo.co.uk> wrote:
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>     Dear All,
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>     I’d like to present the following concept paper, entitled
>     "Measuring Alt Text Quality”.
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>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IVCPcfyfnjm2RJRvgV5pbcQLwzxXKHw66V7R-OW3wiE/edit?usp=sharing
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>     Apologies that it is in Google Docs.
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>     It is, of course, rough and ready as I just wanted to get
>     something written down to start the ball rolling.  It is not
>     perfect (and might be subject to minor changes up until 30th Oct
>     2021), but it has stimulated a lot of thought in my own mind, and
>     I hope it does in yours.  It also shows that metrics (such as
>     SPICE), which are available in the broader AI/ML/CV research
>     world, might prove useful when considering things we are looking
>     to solve in the field of web accessibility.
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>     Very best regards
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>     Alistair
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>     Alistair Garrison
>     CEO / Founder Accesseo Limited
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> *Wilco Fiers*
> Axe-core & Axe-linter product owner - WCAG 3 Project Manager - 
> Facilitator ACT Task Force
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