OK, Luke. I can and will do as you ask. As I'm oin a daylong meeting today, and have half a day of teleconferences tomorrow, I will need some time. It seems that my response will be a short dissertation on the accessibility issues that attend on the <pre> element. I was responding to that in your email, and also in Sina's. I believe the general statement came from the general question about, and desire for a text to html converter. I think I already responded to that in an email last night. So, coming soon, an email about <pre>. Luke Davis writes: > From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > Okay. You have just tossed about some rather general statements, telling > three of us that we are parts of the problem, impeding progress, and so > on. > In our new spirit of cooperation and harmony, I'm going to ask you to get > it to gether and explain what exactly we have said, that makes us such > accessibility killers, before I go and tell you what I think of > generalized, rhetorical, statements. > > So, please, elaborate. > > Luke > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > So, Luke, you're admitting that you're part of the problem on the web, > > and not part of the solution? > > > > > > Luke Davis writes: > > > From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > > > > > I would certainly like a text2html converter. In one particular case of > > > many... > > > > > > Every couple months, I get an entire store catalog in text form, which I > > > am supposed to place on the web site of said store. As it stands, I > > > mostly just incapsulate the entire thing in pre elements. If I were to > > > mark it up by hand, it would take quite some time. All it really needs, > > > are paragraphs and line breaks. Stylesheets can handle much of the rest. > > > > > > One of these days, I'll get sick enough of it to write an app for the > > > purpose. > > > > > > Luke > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Guy Abandon. wrote: > > > > > > > The tool I did would enforce the <br> markers or <p> and find obvious > > > > urls and make active links out of them and all manner of things if you > > > > scribbled in a simple text editor and want it to form the basis of a > > > > quick web page. > > > > > > > > Others wrote similar utilities under DOS too, in the early days of the > > > > web of course and they didn't get developed very far. As you more or > > > > less stated, there's not far you can take something like that. But > > > > the one I did was useful to me. I've still got a set of web pages that > > > > were ran off out of a batch file using said txt2htm utility. > > > > > > > > Now if I thought there was a Pascal compiler for Linux.... I admit > > > > to preferring the Pascal language to C! > > > > > > > > GA! > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
