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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Aug 3, 2011 12:36PM

Hello:
First I would like to say how helpful this list has turned out to be. However, I did want to say that I was very surprised to find a common it professional problem on this list. As most people on this list are in the accessibility field I was very surprised to see that people on this list were bottom posting. Think about this for a second I and many screen reader users do not have punctuation turned on it's too verbose to listen to. So now think about how a person using a screen reader might know how to tell what is new and what is quoted text. And why do us screen reader users need to hear all the old content over and over depending on how many times the message is replied to. Please people could we try and top post in most cases. Or if you must answer inline witch I know needs to happen many times prefix your comments with something other than punctuation. Thanks Lucy




Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu