Which is why I said that it's unfortunate that HTML doesn't have a list format that doesn't use them. As an old author of user documentation, I find it especially objectionable on web pages to not have what we used to call "simple" lists; that is, lists with no highlighting or emphasis on the individual items. They're merely attention-grabbers for sighted readers and in the spirit of informing the blind user of everything that a sighted reader would see, they're announced. My guess; and it's just that; is that in HTML, there's no easy way to indicate that something is a list as opposed to continuing text, so they're used.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gallik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:08 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: What does bullet mean? Okay, we have a good idea of "what" a bullet is. Now the question is, why are they used. Bullet marks -- or any non-ordering item identifier -- are extremely visual devices to indicate that a new item in a list is following. Identifiers such as numbers or letters might indicate some sense of priority while a "bullet" simply says "here's another list item among equals." ---------------- Bill Gallik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ Address to contact the management team: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
