[access-uk] Re: HTML emails: really such a hassel?
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:38:17 -0000
Hi Ray,
I personally prefer HTML Emails. You can just hit enter on a link in
Outlook, and Explorer opens at that web page, instead of all the hassle of
copying the link into the clipboard, then switching to IE to open it, etc.
Most blind people will probably disagree with me, but don't forget, you have
all the quick navigation keys in an HTML message, such as T to navigate
Tables, N for non-linked text in JAWS, or X in WE, etc, and it is so much
easier to read Emails from companies especially, who give us special offers,
such as Maplin, whose newsletters always interest me.
I also take into consideration what Frank says about Eudora, although I
don't use Eudora now, as I prefer Outlook for its calendar and contacts,
etc, which Eudora does not have. I also agree that plain text messages are
safer, but only up to a point. If you go to a link from a plain text
message, you can still get whacked with a trojan, so I don't think this
point is either valid or important any more.
Just another point of view.
All the best
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Sent: 08 March 2006 12:20
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Subject: [access-uk] HTML emails: really such a hassel?
On several email lists from time to time, and too many to give specific
mentions here, I've noted comments on the supposed unacceptability of HTML
formatted emails on lists that accept them. Why is this?
I know well that Text Email Fundamentalists as I think of them will thunder
at the waste of space caused by HTML on email lists. While there's no
getting away from the fact that HTML formatting does take up more space,
important in a list circulating context, is there any reason, as such, to
deplore HTML on grounds of accessibility? If such an email is less than
perfectly accessible it is so only in the sense that a web page is less than
accessible. So, the inaccessibility is in the coding, not in the fact of
the committing of the sin of HTML.
I ask this question because if I am ever asked by small organisations I
sometimes work with informally what is best practice, I cannot, in all
conscience, say HTML in emails is a definite no go area. What's your
thoughts?
Ray
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