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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Top-Posting, Vis-a-Vis Last Night's FussRe: Top-Posting, Vis-a-Vis Last Night's Fuss
From: Mike Miller <rockbox_at_mikeage.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:50:11 +0300 On 8/27/07, Daniel Dalton <daniel.dalton47_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Louden wrote: > > I'll admit, top-posting is probably much easier for a blind user. It's > > in fact much easier for *anyone* to write, but it's far harder for most > > people, I imagine including blind people, to read. > > > > > I am blind myself and I hardly top-post in any email. Top posting can be easier to read _if_ you know the entire context; for example, if you have the previous mails open or memorized. It's much harder to read if it's viewed independantly, for example, on a web archive. I assume that the reason it's easier for the blind is that waiting for the screen reader to go through the entire quoted messages takes quite a while. Are there screen readers that are intelligent enough to identify quoted text and skip it automatically (or allow the user to skip it)? For comparison, gmail can do that (although the header of the replied-to message is not hidden by default) -- Mike Received on 2007-08-27 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |