OK I`m ready for the comeback !
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willywetegg
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I'm not sure if this is the exact one I was looking for but it does what it says on the tin lol.
ScreenReader.net: freedom for blind and Visually impaired people
Jim.
ScreenReader.net: freedom for blind and Visually impaired people
Jim.
mark
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its all falls under the banner of accessibility. the 'visually impaired' (not allowed to say blind anymore) use thats called a screen reader to read whats on screen to them, several different ones on the windoze platform, its part of the operating system on the mac
there is some legislation called the disability discrimination act (DDA) which lays down the rules. depending on what type of organisation you are, it is technically illegal to use text speak.
the DDA can be a real pain if you are designing a site for a company who fall under its powers (anything public - schools, councils, colleges, nhs that sort of thing)
there is some legislation called the disability discrimination act (DDA) which lays down the rules. depending on what type of organisation you are, it is technically illegal to use text speak.
the DDA can be a real pain if you are designing a site for a company who fall under its powers (anything public - schools, councils, colleges, nhs that sort of thing)
same here, don't understand what most of the abbreviations mean anyway.
tryed for a long time to get used to it ,still havent got the hang of it .if theres to much on the page i just dont bother reading it .my daughter dosnt send me messages because as soon as i recognize it i delete it.
its all down to being just lazy ,like a lot of things these days i suppose.
its all down to being just lazy ,like a lot of things these days i suppose.
g-force
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I must admit that, as much as I hate the majority of text-speak, I equally hate the use of unnecessarily over-spelt words. I speak here of things like "programme" versus "program", that kind of thing. Is anything really to be gained by hanging onto the extra "me"?
Then again there are words that are re-spelt after international consensus to avoid confusion, especially in technical / medical fields, such as sulfur (previously sulphur), fetus (formerly foetus) and many more that we lesser mortals are often slow to catch up on.
I must also confess to adopting spelling things like "tonite" instead of "tonight" when texting, but do draw the line at things like "tnt" or whatever as I find the endless strings of consonants sometimes impossible to decypher.
At the end of the day though, I do think that much of language should really be left up to the English professors to argue about; it's often quite entertaining and as far as I'm concerned, as long as you can convey your intentions clearly then minor grammatical errors are a bit of an irrelevance. (ps. a lot of text-speak clearly doesn't fall into this category). Think of all the confusion and nonsense those pesky apostrophes cause!!
Gary
Then again there are words that are re-spelt after international consensus to avoid confusion, especially in technical / medical fields, such as sulfur (previously sulphur), fetus (formerly foetus) and many more that we lesser mortals are often slow to catch up on.
I must also confess to adopting spelling things like "tonite" instead of "tonight" when texting, but do draw the line at things like "tnt" or whatever as I find the endless strings of consonants sometimes impossible to decypher.
At the end of the day though, I do think that much of language should really be left up to the English professors to argue about; it's often quite entertaining and as far as I'm concerned, as long as you can convey your intentions clearly then minor grammatical errors are a bit of an irrelevance. (ps. a lot of text-speak clearly doesn't fall into this category). Think of all the confusion and nonsense those pesky apostrophes cause!!
Gary