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RE: accessible quoting styles in emails?

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Jun 5, 2006 5:50AM

Have any of the people currently debating this topic actually observed
disabled users using e-mail?

I'm sorry, but this "debate" you reference really sounds like a lot of the
debates in the Accessibility community, where there are a lot of people
arguing back & forth about it who are basing their arguments solely on
conjecture, without ever having done any actual observation of disabled
users.


Karl L. Groves



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> Patrick Lauke
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> Subject: [WebAIM] accessible quoting styles in emails?
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> A recent thread on the italian "webaccessibile" mailing list
> has been discussing the issue of quoting in email replies.
> <http://itlists.org/pipermail/webaccessibile/2006-June/037240.html>;
>
> Although most other lists use the standard inline/interleaved
> replies
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Inline_replies>;,
> this list uses a different format proposed by Roberto Scano
> (in this article, also in italian
> <http://www.webaccessibile.org/argomenti/documento.asp?DocID=2
22>) which essentially removes the ">" signs and prefixes each > quoted
fragment with the name of the original author,
> followed by your own name and your specific reply...
>
> Apparently, this makes quoting easier and more readable, but
> recently there have been a few dissenting voices (including
> mine) on the list. Any thoughts? Does the standard inline
> quoting cause any issues to users of AT, or those with
> cognitive disabilities?
>
> Patrick
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