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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 18, 2006 9:20AM

<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> I contacted the web team of our local village newsletter to point out that
> it had scrolling text which a) was not accessible; and b) used the
> proprietary IE <marquee> tag and therefore the text wasn't visible at all
> to users of oter browsers. I thought that I was polite about it; I
> thought that I was being helpful.

You missed out the second part which presumably goes along the lines of
"they told me to mind my own business, and that everybody uses IE anyway".

It's the usual story: you can take a horse to water...

P
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Patrick H. Lauke
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