Re: [VCARDDAV] Make a table for TEL TYPE values

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 04 November 2010 22:26 UTC

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On 04.11.2010 19:51, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 18:07, Simon Perreault<simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>  wrote:
>> On 2010-11-04 13:43, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>>>    +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
>>>>    | Value     | Description                                           |
>>>>    +-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
>>>>    | text      | Indicates that the telephone number supports text     |
>>>>    |           | messages (SMS).                                       |
>>>>    | voice     | Indicates a voice telephone number.                   |
>>>
>>> That format of table isn't very accessible. It certainly won't play
>>> well in a text reader
>>
>> You mean when viewed with non-monospace fonts?
>
> No; I mean when read by an aural device or application like JAWS. The
> user may hear:
>
> "plus dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash plus dash
> dash dash dash..." and so on.

I'd recommend you read an HTML version of the spec instead (and I don't 
mean an htmlized-version of the text/plian version), but one generated 
from the XML source...

Best regards, Julian