Re: The 4-line limit to E-mail Signature Blocks and Accessibility

Hi Omer,

On Saturday 05 Mar 2011 04:40:30 Omer Zak wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 14:48 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > I've been thinking that maybe such two-column and ASCII-art-bases
> > signature is not very accessible to people using screen-readers and/or
> > Braille-devices (e.g: people who are blind or otherwise sight-disabled.)
> 
> [... snipped ...]
> 
> > Omer (Zak), as our resident accessibility expert, what are your views on
> > this?
> 
> On the face of it, your suggestion makes sense.  The drawback is that it
> somewhat limits people's ability to express themselves artistically
> (this is one of the excuses used by movie makers to avoid putting
> captions in their movies - "visual clutter").

Ah. :-(.

> 
> I think that people who read Braille can deal with .sigs (except for the
> ASCII art part, which needs more "global view").
> 
> I suggest that you ask people with visual impairment for their
> experiences with .sigs, and if they don't already have workarounds for
> grokking .sigs.

OK, I'll see if I can do that. Ori told me there's a mailing list for blind 
(or otherwise visually disabled) Linux users (over at RedHat IIRC), but had a 
problem that they are asking many questions there that are mundane technical 
problems they run into with Linux. I'll see what I can do, though.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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