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From: Randi Owens
Date: Aug 3, 2011 1:48PM

This has come up before, and it's one of the reasons I rarely read anything here unless a subject grabbs me. Using a screen reader, if a reply is on top, I just close the message.

Thanks for making this point again. :)

Randi

On Aug 3, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Lucy Greco wrote:

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