- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:14:38 -0800
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Cc: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 07:04 PM 12/22/2000 , Anne Pemberton wrote: >William, > > It would be a great tool to be able to search for educational materials >and be able to choose those with illustrations (number of illustrations >would be nice to know, as would some designation of "reading level"/target >audience) ... Anne, do you believe this information should be self-reported, reported by an outside agency (say, people who run a search engine or web index), or evaluated by some sort of automatic metrics? Is the "number of illustrations" metrics useful? Many web pages use "decorative" images, navigation buttons, and many other things which are not really "illustrations" in the sense that you have argued for; thus the number of "illustrations" -- if that means just graphics counts -- may not be useful at all. Is there any reasonable way to measure reading level automatically? I have not heard good things about the methods which exist to do this automatically. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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