On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 11.03.2010 17:54, Jorge Amodio wrote: >> >> Besides your eyes, (only one in some cases), you don't need any extra >> junkware to be able to read the RFCs, even better, without eyes you >> still can do it since text to speech works very nicely with ASCII. >> ... > > I'd claim that accessibility for properly authored HTML will actually be > better, for instance the markup can express whether something is prose or > artwork. HTML uses ASCII as far as I remember, some tags, URIs and URLs may be impossible to decipher these days but still ASCII (I've to admit that some folks still use-abuse extended ASCII on HTML pages instead proper encoding and lang selection). About text to speech, it only takes a forward or going trough one of the stupid no context aware robo-translators and you will get your t2s interface reciting "gee tee ampersand semicolon greater than eich ref equal lower than bee greater than ..." I guess you get the point. And I agree with Martin, all other formats add a lot of unnecessary crap to the documents, embedded fonts, meta-crap data, hooks to track document changes. And ASCII is more eco-friendly :-) Cheers Jorge _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf