- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:38:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Cc: 'HTML4All' <list@html4all.org>, public-html@w3.org, 'W3C WAI-XTECH' <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, 1 May 2008, John Foliot wrote: > Steven Faulkner wrote: > > A section of Ian hickson's comment on "HTML5 Alternative Text, and > > Authoring Tools": > > > > "We truly do believe in research, hard data, and analysis, rather > > than hypotheticals; and we truly do believe that evidence suggests > > that what we are arguing for is going to improve the accessibility of > > the Web." > > > > http://juicystudio.com/article/html5-alt-text-authoring-tools.php#comment2 > > > > Please show us the evidence. It's not clear exactly what evidence is being requested. The reasoning for the current text has been the subject of a number of long and detailed e-mails to these lists already. > I have been asking for 'evidence' since September of 2007: > [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Sep/0019.html] I replied to that e-mail in detail within hours: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Sep/0020.html I notice you never followed up. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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