[Techtalk] Top Posting (was firewire)

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Sat Jul 12 19:42:20 EST 2003


On Saturday 12 July 2003 1:47 pm, Raquel Rice wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:14:09 -0700
>
> Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > OK, so where is the intelligent choice of responding to this post,
> > where you have mixed up top-and bottom-posting? And left in gobs
> > of redundant sigs? (I also posted a comment below.)
> >
> > Did any of you who favor top-posting read the links that were
> > given on the topic?
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Carla Schroder
>
> Possibly one of the most compelling arguments against "top-posting"
> is ... accessibility.  Not everyone is sighted.  The move is toward
> web content (and email) that is accessible to those who do not have
> all their senses.  Can you imagine a mail reader reading a
> "top-posted" email?  How confusing that would be.
>
> --
> Raquel

iriXx posted earlier that "i hang out on a list where there is a visually 
impaired reader, who 
insists that we top-post because no matter how good the text-to-speech 
software, quoting tends to render emails into gibberish."

Until accessibility technology catches up, it looks like adjusting to the 
particular situation is the best we can do. I tested speech-recognition, 
text-to-speech, and dictation software way back in 1998, and it was poo. They 
kept saying it would improve as more processing power became available to 
consumer PCs. Well here we are with more processing power than we know what 
to do with- where's the improved software?

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