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From: Karen McCall
Date: Sat, Jan 22 2022 6:27AM
Subject: ALL CAPS- Recommendation
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Not sure if anyone remembers when Microsoft made all of the text for the Ribbon tabs all caps and the backlash they got because people couldn't read them. I think it was Office 2010 or 2013.
Camel Case works bets. All caps for acronyms.
Barry is correct, we use the shape of words to predict the word and read faster. With all caps, that ability is removed. This not only affects those using screen readers, but those with learning, cognitive and other print disabilities as well as those with some sensory disabilities who find spatial relationships of characters difficult to process at the best of times. All caps just adds another barrier.
Cheers, Karen
From: Karen McCall
Date: Mon, Jan 24 2022 8:01AM
Subject: Re: ALL CAPS- Recommendation
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There used to be a webpage with guidelines on writing in plain text - way back in the early 2000's - but I can't find it now. It suggested using asterisks in front of some words and a slash in front of others to distinguish between "strong" and "emphasis". I can't find it now.
Might have been "headings" noted with asterisks...anyway there were clear guidelines that we used.
Will continue to search as it was useful.
Cheers, Karen
From: Karen McCall
Date: Mon, Jan 24 2022 9:04AM
Subject: Re: ALL CAPS- Recommendation
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I found the following marketing page but it has some of the things I remember from the plain text guidelines of the early 2000's.
https://www.litmus.com/blog/best-practices-for-plain-text-emails-a-look-at-why-theyre-important/
I found this link on the Plain Text Project website:
https://michaelhyatt.com/multimarkdown/
The Plain Text Project website is:
https://plaintextproject.online/index.html
If you go to the resources page, Links, this is where I got the link "multi-markdown" link.
Cheers, Karen