From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.util.phx.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k528g1p1015889 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:42:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k528g0E8029669 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:42:00 -0400 Received: from smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.95]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k528fwUm008080 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:41:58 -0400 Received: (qmail 74521 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2006 08:41:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO newbox.sbcglobal.net) (willstah@sbcglobal.net@69.209.122.217 with login) by smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Jun 2006 08:41:48 -0000 Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.2.20060602043930.03278450@sbcglobal.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:42:14 -0400 To: "M. Fioretti" , Linux for blind general discussion From: Willie In-Reply-To: <20060601131415.GK4483@mclink.it> References: <20060601101932.GE4483@mclink.it> <20060601115305.GH4483@mclink.it> <20060601125221.GN5720@beta.private.mielke.cc> <20060601131415.GK4483@mclink.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-RedHat-Spam-Score: 2.646 ** X-loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Cc: Subject: Re: What is the best email quoting for blind users? X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: junk Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:42:01 -0000 A really simple solution to all this is to suggest to those complaining that they adjust the amount of punctuation their screen reader is speaking. Instructions for this should be in all of their manuals. At 09:14 AM 6/1/06, you wrote: >On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 08:52:22 AM -0400, Dave Mielke (dave@mielke.cc) >wrote: > > > I didn't make the original statement, but, as a braille user, I'll > > respond to it anyway. The > quotes at the beginning of a line are > > nowhere near as annoying in braille as they would be if individually > > spoken. It's very easy to skim over them with ones fingers, or, in > > fact, to just begin to read each line a little bit in from the > > start. > >Marco Fioretti answers: > >Dave, > >Thanks for sharing this information. Yes, the more I read and think >about it, the more it looks like there is no real reason to ever >remove > quotes in email messages. > >One final question. As a braille user, what do you think of the >quoting style I have used in this email, that is, keeping your quote >with > signs and attribution, then starting my answer with the "Marco >Fioretti answers" line? > >Could it be the best of both worlds, that is complying with >traditional quoting netiquette and, at the same time, separating >quotes from replies for speech readers or braille terminals which >ignore the ">" signs? > >TIA, > Marco > >-- >Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it >Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ > >Non si vive se non il tempo che si ama. C. A. Helvetius > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list Links to local restaurant menus online at: http://www.kcbvi.org