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Re: Posting style

Date1997-12-18 15:01
From"Jim Stevenson Ph.D"
SubjectRe: Posting style
Sorry. I intended to send that message to a blind programmers list, where the
etiquette is to put new comments before quotes, to avoid multiple listening
which is often difficult to skip. I do not expect the sighted majority to
change their usual stile. However, I do believe that many, blind or sighted,
do quote too much, and that many replies could stand on their own.

What blind users really need to function at all, is that developers incorperate
keybord commands to duplicate the mouse functions, and the option of text
output when at all possible. Bit mapped chars substituting for ascii are a
complete show stopper. These necessities are a trivial effort, when made a
design requirement from the start, but are saddly quite difficult to retrofit.
All too often, a small developer, or worse yet Micro$oft, the largest developer
in the world, will delay consideration of accessability to the blind, in a
rush to market their betas, and then pleed that retrofits are too expensive.

Cheers.