- From: Silas S. Brown <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 05:56:46 +0000
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- CC: marja@w3.org, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Numerical measures are by their very nature unreliable, unfortunately. For example, what if you introduce a new word *and define it*, then use it lots of times? But more to the point, being told that "Your document has a rating of 12.0" is not at all helpful (as I find out when I type things into Microsoft Word and use its built-in grader). It's like saying "Your website is rubbish" without giving any indication of how to make it better. Maybe what we need is a spellcheck-like tool that helps with simplification where this is possible. Eg. on that sentence it could highlight 'simplification' and suggest 'making it easier' (among perhaps two or three others), or 'is possible' -> 'can be done'. All we need is the database. (Of course, it would be harder to do if you wanted it to be possible in languages other than English as well....) Regards -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://epona.ucam.org/~ssb22/ "Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the sons of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs." - Psalm 146:3
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