From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T02:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden Spam

Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
> ASCII art will still suffer from accessibility issues, since a screen 
> reader will not be able to read the ASCII art in any intelligible way to 
> the user. :( However, it is an ingenious approach...I'm tempted to look 
> into that, JFTHOI.
> 

Some sound-savvy person could write a routine to turn a string into a
sound file via text-to-speech. Then the visually impaired could click
on a link and have the text read to them.

Overkill for us perhaps, but it's been done.


Hal