- From: <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:52:06 +0100
- TO: asgilman@access.digex.net, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
OK. Priorety 3. We should allow though to include misspelt words in <META name="keywords"> for our illetrate readers who look us up in search engines. Best, Nir. > And, by the way, I do believe we _should_ mention spell-checking. > > This is another case of a general good practice, where failing to > follow the practice has more severe impacts on the text-to-speech > user than on the visual user. Someone reading with their eyes > can usually pick out the spelling error or will in fact read > right through it without perceiving the error. But someone > depending on text to speech will get garbage for a word with a > spelling error. This heightened vulnerability to something that > otherwise is a minor nuisance _should be mentioned_. > > Al > > PS: This is a "do as I say, not as I do." One can find ample > evidence of this effect among the perplexed readers of my > unchecked email <wince>.
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