From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T02:33:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden Spam

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:20, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.

     An add-on to my privious thought: random phonetic speling mistakes
in the puzles would not hindder a humen nearly as much as they woud a
bott--even if the human was useing a text-too-speach tool.

     -- Markus

P.S. Although I suspect the technique should be used sparingly for
aesthetic reasons.