[il-talk] Fwd: Additional Comment about Audible Pedestrian Signals

[Bill Reif]

Hi Edwin and list,

This problem has been a pet peeve of mine since I started using email.  
It illustrates what can go wrong when those who initiate emails don't 
follow decent email edicate.  When people send an email to hundreds of 
recipients, they should put the manes of all those recipients in the 
blind copy (or BBC) field.  Those recipients might appreciate their 
email addresses not being broadcast to the world or, in this case, to 
mailing lists accessible through search engines.

When I am reading a message on my computer that starts out with a long 
list of addresses, I use my screenreader's search function (ctrl-shift-f 
in Window-eyes) to find the word "subject".  This isn't always the 
beginning of the real content, as the message may have been forwarded 
several times, so you may have to search again.

Your question involves the best way to share an email where someone has 
not followed this simple courtesy.  I find that the easiest way to 
forward just the content of interest is to copy the text you want to 
forward from the copy you are reading, rather than trying to edit the 
reply.  That's because screen readers sometimes make it tricky to 
navigate the tables in which email addresses are put.  In the newest 
Window-eyes, it is possible to pull text from browse mode by pressing 
the F8 key at the beginning and end of the text you would like to 
forward.  After the second press, you will be given the option to copy 
it to the clipboard.  With other screenreaders, you can use your shift 
and arrow keys to select text to be copied to the clipboard.  You can 
then forward or reply as normal, clearing everything out of the message 
by selecting it all with ctrl-a and deleting it.  Finally: after writing 
any comments you would like to, pressing ctrl-v will copy whatever you 
put in the clipboard to your message.

Edwin, I am sure that most people didn't previously see your posted 
comments, placed as they were at the bottom of what was a long message.  
That's why mote people put their reply comments at the top of messages.

Cordially,
Bill



On 5/1/2015 9:32 AM, Edwin Rodriguez via il-talk wrote:

-- Edwin Rodriguez
Hi, Is there anyway to get these messages without the entire list of 
persons e/mails who are getting this? If so can someone post how to do 
it so I can learn? I also want to preface this request by saying, yes 
this is a blind related issue because I want to know how to do it with 
speech. Thanks all for your attention to this matter.
Cordially,
Edwin