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Re: Quoting previous emails

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From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Dec 8, 2009 7:48AM

There are programs that will clean up the emails that contain the > signs
and other unnecessary attributes when forwarding an email e.g. Email
stripper so the technology is out there. In this and similar programs the
email is copied and pasted in to the cleaning program edited and then copied
and pasted back in to a new cleaned up email for sending. Generally these
programs are freeware.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Quoting previous emails


> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> When punctuation settings are set in JAWS to"Read all" it will identify
>> quotes. The > signs are generally put in by the email programs and JAWS
>> reads each > sign.
>
> And this is unfortunate. A much better behavior would be for screen
> readers to identify sections that begin with > and simply read "Begin
> quote" at the beginning and "End quote" at the end, and then ignore
> all of the >'s in between. I suppose a good, accessible e-mail client
> could do the same thing. And all e-mail clients should function like
> Gmail, which hides long quoted sections of messages that don't appear
> to be relevant to the conversation (e.g., anything repeated below a
> top-posting).
>
> I do find it interesting that nobody has yet to figure this out
> despite the fact that e-mail is about the longest lasting form of
> online communication we have. It's not going away any time soon
> either, so isn't it about time someone figure out a reasonable
> solution to the e-mail quoting issue? It's not a complicated issue to
> solve.
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM
>