Re: ASCII Ribbon Campaign

You could:

1. Eliminate the ASCII in your signature.
2. Give some textual indication of the fact that ASCII art was to follow 
and what it was intended to depict.  Optionally the number of lines, 
although this is hard to indicate accurately.
3. Ensure that the ASCII art was always the final item in your message.

I say this not to start a debate but at least for me the fact that I've had 
to repeatedly hear all the gibberish (ASCII art) in your messages makes it 
that much more likely that I just delete them without reading.  My point is 
that if you make the user experience tedious, whether that's your intent or 
not, the user may just walk away.

Now I'm sure others could say the same about my comments and again my 
intent is not to start a debate.


At 08:33 PM 10/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Kelly Ford wrote:
>
>hmmmmmmm, well it is not a web site but e-mail
>
>the question though is how would I tag or make the site more accessible
>
>Bob
>
>
> > At 01:37 PM 10/30/01 -0500, Access Systems wrote:
> > >On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 09:25 AM 10/30/2001 , Access Systems wrote:
> > > > >    /"\   ASCII Ribbon 
> Campaign       accessBob                       .-.
> > > > >    \ /   NO HTML/PDF/RTF in 
> e-mail   accessys@smartnospam.net        /v\
> > > > >     X    NO MSWord docs in e-mail    Access Systems,
> > > engineers      // \\
> > > > >    / \   NO attachments in e-mail    equal access is a civil 
> right /(
> > > _ )\
> > > > >*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* 
> #*#*
> > > #*#*#*
> > > >
> > > > You know, ASCII art is considered an accessibility barrier.
> > >
> > >text interpertation next to it,  "ASCII RIBBON"
> > >and the other one isn't supposed to be intereperted, if you know what it
> > >means it means the same in non visual and you understand it
> > So how am I supposed to know from hearing star number a dozen or more 
> times
> > what's going on.  Quite honestly ASCII art is every bit as much as an
> > accessibility problem as the other items I read here all the time.  In 
> this
> > example I see nothing telling me what's coming up and am slammed in the
> > ears with an incessent repetition of "star number".
> >
> > And what's all the slash back slash around the signiture?  More audio
> > clutter to me.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>    /"\   ASCII Ribbon Campaign       accessBob                       .-.
>    \ /   NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail   accessys@smartnospam.net        /v\
>     X    NO MSWord docs in e-mail    Access Systems, engineers      // \\
>    / \   NO attachments in e-mail    equal access is a civil right /( _ )\
>*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#
>THIS message and any attachements are CONFIDENTIAL and may be
>privleged.  They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named
>above. If you are not the intended recipient, Please notify the sender as
>soon as possible. Please DO NOT READ, COPY, USE, or DISCLOSE this
>communication to others and DELETE it from your computer systems.  Thanks

Received on Thursday, 1 November 2001 05:09:29 UTC