Re: spell-check, yes

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>.

Received on Monday, 26 October 1998 04:53:13 UTC