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Raj Lal wrote: a famous case study about CNN getting 30% more traffic after they made their website more accessible by adding transcript
Hi Raj,
I have been unable to locate a source for your statement about CNN and increased access because of transcripts. However, I did locate a W3.org source indicating CNET improved traffic 30%[^] by use of transcripts.
If you have a source re CNN and transcripts, I'd appreciate a link.
thanks, Bill
"Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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thanks a lot,
The case stdy was about CNET and not CNN 
I really appreciate your time looking into the matter and clarifying for everyone.
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My point isn't that you can't improve SEO with accessibility, it's that designing an accessible site may not achieve any increase in your site due to SEO. If you have a modern, fluid, CSS driven site, then making it accessible may achieve nothing.
In CNETs case, their provision of transcripts was linked to a massive redesign which fundamentally changed the behaviour of their site because they previously had content, in video form, that couldn't be indexed. As most sites aren't as reliant on videos as CNET was, the link is still tenuous.
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Now I see your point, thanks for the clarification.
Yes you are right, if your websites are using standard Modern HTML guidelines with alt attribute and title's for image and links, you are already doing everything for SEO.
CNET is definitively a special case due to video, YMMV.
regards
Raj
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One thing I forgot to put in - good job on the slides. You should write a book about it.
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thanks made my day !
I am writing an article at msdn on the topic (will update you), if that becomes popular i will think about investing time on writing a book 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18168278[^]
See if you can crack this: b749f6c269a746243debc6488046e33f
So far, no one seems to have cracked this!
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob!
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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Awesome!
"Necessity (also paycheck) is the mother of invention"
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Super secret reason: Their 122 year old clocks were off by 10 ms and the only person who knew how to reset them has been dead for 70 years! 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future:
My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine.
Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow.
The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom.
1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks.
2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen.
3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags.
This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^]
LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU!
I weep for the future...
  
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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Alexander DiMauro wrote: I weep for the future...
The teacher is weeping for the collapse of Soviet Union maybe?
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Now you can sue to school system for forcing political view on your daughter!
On a more serious note, I ran into the same problem multiple times in school, including a math(s) teacher who insisted a year has 367 days.
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The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations.
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That gives me an idea for a new esolang ...
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A language exactly like Lisp, except the parenthesis are ignored? 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations.
Just like you ignored the S in Maths.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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oh ya..
Way back in college days, we had Discrete Math subject for 2 consecutive semesters and I didn't understand what was this teacher talking about.He TALKED/WROTE to the board a lot than to his students.
Wasted the entire semesters with him.*sigh*
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the last teacher i saw who has SOME updated knowledge was fired because the principal doesn't agree with what they was teaching...
this isn't a fair world, for instance, i know more than most of my teachers at university and my manager together... 
this world is lost, lost a long time ago...
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
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Alexander DiMauro wrote: LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU!
Perhaps there is a shred of hope after all.
BDF
I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be.
-- BillWoodruff
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My daughter just came up to me yesterday asking if I could teach her DOS commands so she could run an old game through DosBox[^]
So, yes, there is still some sliver of hope, I suppose!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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I was looking at the local Community College's catalog last night* and was happily surprised that they have a class (on paper anyway) in the use of the Windows command line. 
* Wanting to see what they may want a teacher for.
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My step-daughter (5th grade) learned from her social studies “old-school” teacher that:
-First man in the space was American.
-The Periodic Table of Elements was created from the ancient Greeks. 
But this is not a big deal. She used to have magnificent teachers so we can’t make generalizations for all of them because of just one or two little ignorant individuals.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: My step-daughter (5th grade) learned from her social studies “old-school” teacher that:
-First man in the space was American.
The scary part is that a lot of Americans have no idea who Yuri Gagarin was. I remember the looks on people's faces when I said 'Happy Yuri's Night!' last April, and no one had any idea what I was talking about. Sad.
Most Americans also think that Henry Ford invented the automobile...
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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