Comments on: A new sounding look and feel

By: Harald van Breederode

Harald van Breederode — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:52:05 +0000

Hi Doug,

Emoticons are indeed not very accessible! The problem gets worse by “smart” software which tries to map text smiley’s into graphics and vice-versa. I taught JAWS to say “winky smile” when it encounters a semi-colon,dash and right paren combination. But most other emoticons pass by without notice.

-Harald

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:24:52 +0000

Ah! Of course, there were two “grin”s in there, in angled brackets, which look like HTML tags, so they were stripped out ….

“such matters was what made me chuckle “grin”

(As for the “grin”, I don’t think emoticons are very accessible, eh? Disregarding whether you find them irritating, as I’m sure many will, it’s only a slight difference between a smile and a frown)”

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:20:01 +0000

Good call, Harald.

I don’t know why a sentence as serious as this made me chuckle, but it did :-

“Hopefully the sighted visitors understand that this has to be a two sided road and I expect that they build accessible web pages for the blind in return!”

I’m sure you will keep me straight on this and, if you don’t, I know a man who will . Maybe the thought of Richard setting me straight on such matters was what made me chuckle.

(As for the , I don’t think emoticons are very accessible, eh? Disregarding whether you find them irritating, as I’m sure many will, it’s only a slight difference between a smile and a frown)