Re: Some Kudos for Dell


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >
>> I try to follow the approach of the post, but top posting is actually
>> easier
>> and clearer. Try following a thread in a newsgroup if you're blind and
>> using a screen reader and everyone bottom posts. It's horrible.
>
> It's just as bad if you just into a thread without being able to see the
> previous posts, read an answer, and then have to search for the question
> in 400 other posts.
>
> Proper bottom posting also include aggressivee snipping of the text you
> are replying too - but people don't do that properly either.


You've clearly never used a screen reader. My wife is visually impaired and
I help her a lot. Bottom posting, no matter how much you snip, is a
complete disaster. Imagine it. With site, you skim to the bottom and read
the new info. Without site, you have to listen, listen, listen to the
entire post to hear the new information. With top posting, you read the new
information and then listen to enough to get context.

Actually, it works better for sighted people too, since there is no need to
scroll, but stubborn people refuse to learn new things and insist that
bottom posting is 'right' and 'the rules'.

Top posting by any measure is easier.

Tom


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