Thanks for links, John. I'll check them both. There is another aspect to vision impairment that most web based apps introduce their own deficiency, i.e. contrast. We have some folks whose vision doesn't need enlargement or magnification because that's not their challenge. Contrast is the issue. Background colors that are too close in the spectrum to the text colors result in a blank gray screen for some. Most of the web is designed by young people who like pretty colors and can't relate to those who don't watch the Saturday morning cartoons any longer.
"black on white is good, blue on gray is bad" -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 8:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ibm 3278 talking terminal Perhaps one of the products on these pages would help? https://www.enablemart.com/vision/blindness/screen-readers http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness I don't know anything about them. I got the above from this series of posts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/DN59u8FjA0E On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Hilary Hurwitz <hila...@nioi.gov.il> wrote: > I know this is a long shot. We have a blind programmer in our DBA team > who has been working for about 30 years on a IBM 3278 talking > terminal. However it recently went to that big cyber store in the sky > and no one here in Israel can find spare parts so far. > > Is there anyone in the world who has another - maybe in a storeroom, > or museum :) ? > > ALternatively is there any blind person who has succeeded working > mainframe emulation with Cobra on a PC ? > > Or what other alternatives are there. > > The best we have found is Cobra - in conjunction with Attachmate (PCOM > just would not work) > > Can anyone help please ? > > Hilary Hurwitz > Israel National Security > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
