- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:05:33 -0400
- To: <michelle.black@sickkids.ca>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
for now at least, I think what is deemed is proper grammar is the way to go. Why confuse things. ----- Original Message ----- From: <michelle.black@sickkids.ca> To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: RE: Screen readers and full stops Many thanks to Simon and Phill for their feedback on this question. It sounds like some user agents can be set to detect ends of lines even without periods, and others may not. I agree that fundamentally the software that reads information should be set to accommodate the user's needs, and that introducing new ways of writing just to try and make it work for all might be tricky and ill-advised. Just to clarify, I wasn't considering putting the period at the end of each bullet point, just the final one. Might this be a good compromise for those users whose equipment is not set to impose the full stop? That way, at the very least they will get a pause at the end of the stream of bullets, if not after each individual bullet. I know that proponents of strict grammar might say that all lists should be punctuated as if they were in their longer, multi-clause form, which would include the final period anyway. I tend to favour only the bare minimum, especially for low-literacy readers, and am happy to drop that final period if it will only make things more complicated for most users. Thanks again for the help, and for any further input. Michelle
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