On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I > once was on a maths mailing list for about three years before I > realised that the most prolific and helpful person there was as > blind as a bat.
And that, I think, is what s/he would have most wanted: three years (more, most likely) without any sort of special treatment. It's all very well to talk about anti-discrimination laws, but on the internet, nobody knows you're a bat, if I can mangle that expression without offending people. We have some excellent people on a couple of MUDs I'm on who are, similarly, blind and using screen-readers. Again, you don't even know that that's the case until/unless a question comes out about some piece of ASCII art (which there's a very VERY little of in Threshold), or some client-specific question hints at the fact that s/he is using one of the reader-friendly clients (which are fairly ugly to the sighted). As to the use of color for emphasis, though - I don't think the OP used it like that. I've no idea what the significance of white-on-blue words was, there; it completely eludes me. Maybe he was sending a secret message in the color codes? In any case, Steven's eight reasons are absolutely right; when HTML code isn't adding information, it should be stripped, and when it is adding information, you risk a large proportion of people not seeing it. So there's never a good time to use HTML. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
