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Re: Screen reader spelling conventions

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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Oct 22, 2009 8:25AM

As a screen reader user, e-mail is perfectly fine. There's hardly any
difference unless one listens closely or have the punctuation setting
cranked up to hear all punctuations. Even still the convention has been to
use e-mail. Sitemap/site map, I entirely agree. I think it should be two
words to begin with.

Pratik


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of John E. Brandt
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:12 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader spelling conventions

Just had a conversation last week with my friend Steve who is a screen
reader user and this topic came up. He indicated he didn't care about the
spelling or how the screen reader pronounced, or mispronounced word, just as
long as it did so consistently.

Interesting point, I thought.

~j

John E. Brandt
Accessible Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steven Henderson
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:55 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader spelling conventions

I've become interested in ensuring that certain spellings are accessible to
screen reader users, so far I have changed a few conventions and wondered
what others thought and possibly suggestions of other words that I might
not yet have thought of (I expect there could be a few, given that I am only
suggesting two here).



"Sitemap" in favour for "Site map"

"Email" in favour for "E-mail"



And in any such cases, if search engine queries were in favour of the least
favoured spelling, how would that affect keywords (being that they're
sensitive).











Regards,



Steven