On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:06:29 +0000, Lisi wrote: >My blind friend with his screen reader seems to have much less trouble with >messy HTML than I (partially sighted) do. His screen reader just reads it to >him. I stare at the mess of "pretty" colours and fancy writing, with >blotches and swirls everywhere and don't know where to begin.
Of which we hear virtually nothing. Many of those blotches and swirls we here as the word "graphic", and if the coder of said page was nice enough, we'll here the alt-tag assigned to said graphic. Otherwise, we get it very plain, which, to tell all you non-visually-impaired majority out there ( :-) ), we like just fine! <ear-to-ear grin>. In fact, and this is just a wee bit off-topic, something else you all would love to know: we who receive magazines in special formats (narrated, transcribed into braille) do *NOT* receive any of the advertising the rest of you all have to plow through to find the articles. It wasn't until the explosion of the Web as an advertisement platform that people who relied on specially prepared reading materials came to know just how much advertising is all around them, and always has been, in standard print media. But on the flip side, advertisers don't realize we're not gettin' their message, partially because of undescribed graphics, but mostly because we just use our down-arrow keys a lot and pass the ads right by! >But he found bottom posting and interleaving terrible. He does appear to have >come to terms with it now and even does it himself.