<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Does anybody know how blind users prefer footnotes to be read for them?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I would never want to require that a footnote be read to anyone, thereby interrupting the text -- it is in the nature of a footnote to be optional reading and to stand apart from the text. Any user should have the option of reading/hearing it, or not.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>___</DIV><DIV>David Walbert</DIV><DIV>LEARN NC</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:dwalbert@learnnc.org">dwalbert@learnnc.org</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>