Greetings, Since Cara and her good buddy Elvis Presley (and y'all actually thought he was dead) are off in the South of France spending those millions that come her way every time you click on a Maccessibility article I thought I'd put on my moderator hat for the first time on this list to request closure of this topic.
To be honest there were a number of occasions when I wished there were a couple more lines in the Maccessibility email so I wouldn't have to click on the link. In many cases though I was already aware of the content -- e.g. Esther wrote her typical excellent and informative description of the new IOS4.1 key commands. Saving her post rendered perusal of that article superfluous. When the couple lines made me curious enough to click on the link, however I accepted the reality that this is how main stream communication is conducted today. If someone asks about basic voiceOver commands would you cut and paste the text of applicable chapters from the VO getting started guide into a reply and fill everyone's in-box, or simply reference the URL? I would suggest that the latter is infinitely more desirable especially for the majority who wouldn't be in need of this information. Sorry, but in this day and age its a reasonable expectation that users be capable of clicking links contained in emails since browser integration has been a basic feature of main stream email clients as far back as the mid 1990s. More over, screen readers offer a way to quickly skip to headings, or voiceOver's item chooser would probably do the trick. And speaking of filling up in-boxes, I would suggest that the venting, conspiracy theories and general foolishness over a policy someone pointed out early on "aint gonna" change consumed much more human life than, gasp, having to click on a link so as to learn more about a topic of interest. Just do the math. We presently have 556 subscribers. For sake of argument lets say it takes an average of five seconds to deal with a post, though I'm sure its probably much longer. Okay, so five seconds times 556 subscribers equals 46 minutes and 20 seconds of human life for every post. This is why I believe it's important to make one's post count, and there is really no value whipping a dead horse. I don't personally know Maccessibility's business model, but lets say for sake of argument that the authors get some kind of compensation from advertisers based on list traffic. Okay, seriously, even if this is so, WTF is wrong with that? How does this vary from sites such as Snopes or Google, or just about every other site we routinely visit. From what I've seen, a lot of work goes into Maccessibility and I suspect it's not likely to by groceries, let alone send anyone on a crews to the South of France with Elvis. As with any other site you absolutely have a choice whether the content warrants your time to visit. Now can we please put this topic to bed? Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Geoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
