On 30 Nov 2000, at 8:43, Rick Onanian wrote:
> Okay, speaking of that...do you suppose there's really a lot of
> blind people who want to build linux routers?
Ah, but we're not speaking of them are we? Only about people wanting
to read our web page :-)
Seriously, why not? Blind users have homes just like everyone else,
and there are blind Linux users, including mailing lists such as
"blinux-list" and others.
> Do blind people have video cards that read them text, or just
> software?
Some have hardware, some have software. A fellow I knew had a widget
that he scanned over the text screen to read the text on screen; it
put the characters into braille on a "fingerpad" thingie.
> If it was only software, I would say not to worry too much about
> them, as they won't be able to use LEAF anyway.
Why not? I'm going to see if I can compile SVGATextMode and brltty;
both should help blind users.
I also noticed that lynx supports (internally) finger, gopher, ftp,
http, and news - doesn't that make it almost a candidate for
"superbinary" like busybox or tinylogin?
> You've misread Mike's tone, I believe; he was reminding everybody that
> anyone with ideas should _show_ them, not just tell them; that's why
> we're submitting different pages.
I was hoping I had - I'm glad to see I was right. But what I have is
not an "idea" but a suggestion for EVERY page.... Look for some web
pages about designing web pages for the disabled and let's see if the
LEAF page can hold to THOSE standards....
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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
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