I agree with both Thomas and charles. I'm on so many lists that if I see an
email I know I won't be able to read without taking a lot of time, I won't
bother. As I said earlier, it isn't exactly the hardest thing in the world
to proofread an email as you go. This makes yourself look better, and it
takes less effort for others to understand you, which means they'll be more
likely to want to listen to what you have to say.
And to Joseph... this was never meant to insult Michael, simply our reaction
to his complaint about Mario's bad response to his continuous emails about
Silversword accessibility, which has lead to a discussion as well as an
attempt to educate some people on list who seem to have the same problem
when they post here.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Gamers Being Taken Seriously?
I receive a few hundred Emails on most days, and there are some Emails
that, when I see that they are written by certain people, I hit the delete
key. I already know that I won't be able to understand them because of
their lack of communication skills. It's not because they don't use
English as their native language. It's because they write horribly. I,
and others, used to try to help them become more understandable, but all
they did was to get mad, and no improvements were made. It's not because
they can't, but because they! won't! They just don't care. As a result,
even if I could help them through a spot in a game, or if I could help them
with a problem with their computer, or if I could give them tips on how to
barbecue, I'll never even see their questions, because they refuse to do
even minor work on being understood. It's their loss, not mine. Sad, but
true.
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Gamers Being Taken Seriously?
Hi Chris,
All good points. I'd like to add that I'm on a number of technology
lists and forums, and I largely read and respond to e-mails based on
reputation. By reputation I mean weather the person can write clearly,
if there aren't a lot of grammar and spelling errors, and weather or
not the e-mails use proper punctuation. Is that unfair?
No. Even using a screen reader like Jaws, NVDA, or Window-Eyes things
like spelling errors, grammatical errors, and lack of punctuation make
it difficult to listen to a poorly written e-mail. Lack of punctuation
means the screen reader won't pause properly between natural sentense
breaks and it makes it difficult to listen to the message. Spelling
and grammar errors will cause the screen reader to say things
incorrectly forcing me to stop the speech and review the line word by
word to get the context of the message. If I have to do that with x
number of e-mails waiting for me to read I'm just going to throw out
and skip anything that requires extra time and effort to read. So my
point here is it isn't just a case of sighted people doing this, but
there are blind people such as myself who quickly toss out anything
that isn't immediately clear from the start as well.
Cheers!
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