- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:33:51 -0500
- To: "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "WAI-GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
John Slatin, then Joe Clark: <blockquote> > I think the problem is that the *line* isn't semantically significant > when you're quoting. It's much more semantically significant if you and your correspondents use mailers that support flowed text, like Eudora, M2, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and-- wait for it!-- Hotmail. </blockquote> Well, maybe so. I stopped using Eudora in 1996 because a new release had come out that didn't play nicely with JAWS. I can't use Thunderbird because there's no screen reader support. I don't know what M2 is. And I don't use Hotmail because I've never been able to get past the capcha. "Good design is accessible design." John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/ -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Joe Clark Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:18 am To: WAI-GL Subject: RE: Accessible quotation style in email (was Re: HTML messages) First of all, it's much more important that Working Group members cease top-posting. You can turn off HTML in Outlook and force Outlook to use what is euphemistically called "Internet-style quoting": <http://email.about.com/cs/oetipstricks/qt/et012401_p.htm> <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#out2002> <http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/quote.htm> > As I pointed out to someone who wrote me off-list, the print world has > had effective conventions for handling quotations for a whole lot longer > than email has had them. Print conventions are inapplicable. > I think the problem is that the *line* isn't semantically significant > when you're quoting. It's much more semantically significant if you and your correspondents use mailers that support flowed text, like Eudora, M2, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and-- wait for it!-- Hotmail. > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of David Dorward > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:11 am > To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org > Subject: Accessible quotation style in email (was Re: HTML messages) And we see that John unnecessarily top-posts text that was already correctly quoted. And yes, we need an automatic converter from at least flowed text to blockquote, as I called for previously: <http://blog.fawny.org/2004/11/06/flowed/> -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/> --This. --What's wrong with top-posting?
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