- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:53:42 -0700
- To: "'Philip TAYLOR'" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>, "'W3C WAI-XTECH'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
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]
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