On 12/11/2015 9:33 AM, Kevin Anderson wrote:
I used to be an ardent bottom-poster like this list requires, but then I was given one very good reason to switch that I believe is valid and persuasive -- bottom posting (and even inline posting), I understand, is a very royal pain in the arse for people who are visually disabled or challenged and require the use of assistance software.
By the same argument, all printed material should be in Braille, right? It's impractical to have the same common denominator.
The problem you describe seems more like it could be handled by better, smarter assistance software. Can't it "page forward"?
As we scroll down through a long bottom post series, we recognize what we've read before... so I assume blind people can recognize what they've *heard* before, and can simply scroll forward to the new sections.
Interwoven posting, however, would seem the real nightmare for assistance software.. as trying to find where you are and whose voice you're hearing would be unreliable. My email client shows vertical bars for each reply level, but even these are highly unreliable.
- J.
