Re: Study project: ALTifier or text-equiv -- Please choose!

>1.  I have to admit I don't understand the original question.  It
>seems to me that whether the text is put in place of the image,
>or is put in a ALT attribute so the browser can put it in place
>of the image, the work is in scavenging the rest of the site and
>web to get plausible text, not in sewing it back into the
>offending page.  

LRK::
My understanding of the original question was that the tool that the
webmaster would use would have the webmaster put in the ALT text explicitly
by hand whereas the alternative would use various heuristics many of which
would simply guess at the ALT text.  In other words, only the second one is
the scavenger.

>Mostly I am more interested in getting to the point where we can
>try as many techniques as possible and not try to prioritize them
>by popularity poll.

LRK::

So, question to Michael and others in er-wg who would be working on this...

  - Is is feasible to do every single feature?  Maybe yes, if different
    folks take up different parts.   On the other hand...

  - maybe not, in which case you you need priority input.  For example, if 
    several can be done very quickly, you'd presumably just do them.
    But if you have choice between two high effort features, then
    priority is needed.  

   So what are the large effort items?

Len

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Leonard R. Kasday
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Received on Monday, 26 October 1998 10:19:53 UTC