I'm not sure what you mean by this. Most screen readers will read underlines or periods as underlines or periods, so there is no emphasis on bold or italics. If you mean something else, please accept my apologies and elaborate further. I personally turn off all punctuation when reading because I don't want to hear the periods and such. In Windows and MS Word, it will tell you if something is formatted differently. In English Braille which is also 7-bit, there is usually an accent mark (the equivalent to "`" to the sighted) to show any accented letter and a similar underline (or underscore if you prefer) convention for other emphasis. On 9/11/2009 9:26 PM, James Adcock wrote:
PS: Bit curious which blind reader handles _/the underscore “convention”/_ correctly – I’ve not seen _/that/_ one!