- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 11:34:55 +0100
- To: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, public-html@w3.org, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
lachlan I am not arguing against running studies, if a methodology can be agreed upon, then please go ahead. david poehlmann wrote: >If I see a text link, it would have to be well labeled for me to know that >it is a descriptive link. if I see a longdesc associated with a link, I >don't have to make a leap. This does not appear to be speculation, it appears to be the experience of one potential consumer of longdesc. regards stevef 2008/9/6 Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>: > Steven Faulkner wrote: >> >> Lachlan wrote: >>> >>> That seems like nothing more than speculation about the usability of long >>> description links. It's certainly not an argument against doing the >>> study, >>> since whether or not it really is an issue for users, would be revealed >>> by >>> the study itself. >> >> As i understand it david is one of the 'users' you talk about, so his >> views are useful, and there are at least a few other potential >> consumers of longdesc in the HTML WG, listening to them may be a good >> place to start on such things. > > Yes, I'm aware of that. But my point was that until we have objective > evidence to verify his claims, all we have is speculation and hypotheses; > and speculation about usability problems is not a reason to avoid doing a > usability study that would verify that. > > -- > Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software > http://lachy.id.au/ > http://www.opera.com/ > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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