- From: Chris Maden <crism@ora.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:32:27 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
[Geoff Freed] > I vote for "Item." Based on my experience with outSPOKEN, I also > vote for the comma since it forces a decent (but not long) pause in > the reading of the text. To keep things as clear as possible, I > think it's important to have a pause after the text tag. I just ran > several tests and found that outSPOKEN doesn't seem to care if there > are spaces after the comma. the pause is the same after no space, > one space, two spaces or more. But outSPOKEN does not pause at all > after a semicolon, regardless of spaces. > > To confuse the issue a bit further... when it encounters a period, > outSPOKEN drops its pitch slightly. Therefore, inserting a period > after a text tag might make it clearer that the text tag has ended. > Maybe a period is a better seperator? I would prefer a period or colon. Remember that accessibility should mean accessibility to the *sighted*, as well as the non-; "Item, Shoes for sale" looks goofy and ungrammatical. "Item. Shoes..." and "Item: Shoes..." are both grammatically acceptable. If they don't sound good in a screen reader, I would venture that the screen reader has bugs, since these are sensical uses of English punctuation. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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