RE: some reflections on @alt usage (and summary of research so far)

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> 
>> Speaking with my Google hat on for just this paragraph, I can
>> assure you  > that with Picasa Web Albums, if we offered our users
>> the opportunity to  > specify alternative text, most wouldn't use it,
>> if we required them to  > provide it, most would provide bogus text,
>> and if we forced them to  > provide useful alternative text, they
>> would all find one of our  > competitors' sites and give up on Picasa
>> altogether. (Google hat off.)      
> 
> Speaking with my Picasaweb user's hat on,
> can you please substantiate this statement
> with /evidence/, not hypothesis and personal
> (or corporate) opinion ?


"...we have to base our decisions on the actual results of research rather
than our opinions..." 
Ian Hickson:
[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Aug/0137.html]

Received on Sunday, 24 August 2008 15:54:38 UTC