[Athen] Best practise for threads in discussions.

[Kestrell]

I don't know if this is an official practice, but, as a screen reader user 
myself, what I find most useful is to change the subject line but leave part 
of the original thread, as in:
Best practices in thread responses, was configuring controls

This way I can see the new subject and also go back and read previous emails 
where the subject jumped, as long as I haven't deleted those emails yet.

Kestrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "E.A. Draffan" <ead at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" <athen at athenpro.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 6:22 PM
Subject: [Athen] Best practise for threads in discussions.



> This is a question I have just received and my feeling is that we need to 

> get better at using subject lines correctly, but please can anyone give me 

> some pointers to good practice.

>

> "I've been asked what would be the best way of conveying nesting structure 

> to screenreader users so that they could understand whether a reply was to 

> the original message in the thread or to a subsequent message. Do you have 

> any opinions or resources on that issue?"

>

> Many thanks.

>

> Best wishes E.A.

>

> Mrs E.A. Draffan

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