On 30 Nov 2000, at 9:24, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 07:39 AM 11/30/00 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
> >This thread is about creating web pages that are usable by blind
> >people and others.
>
> You've only discussed issues relating to blind people, so I wonder if
> you could expand a bit on the "others".
Perhaps only marginally. The sight-impaired come to mind: they can
see, but not well; large print is useful - SVGATextMode may help in
this, though it sounds as if it has problems with serial consoles.
There are also those that might want to use Lynx in an embedded
environment such as LRP. For me, I could see having to access a site
from a network scanning session or a system rescue session. Lynx
makes it easy; Netscape makes it impossible :-)
> Related to that ... since you raised this question ... how usable
> is Sourceforge itself by various disabled groups?
My first impression? Positively ghastly. It's barely usable by me;
frequently when I load a page it flips to a NEW page with only the
banner loaded: IF it loads at all.... I press "backup" and get the
REAL page.
> Finally, we seem to be thinking about dsabled *users* of LEAF and the
> LEAF site. What issues are there with respect to a disabled
> *developer* wanting to participate in LEAF?
Not sure, but the SourceForge pages become quite important here.
Aren't there any disabled projects on SourceForge already?
In this line of thinking, I've already begun development on making
Oxygen support the blind; I've added /dev/vcsa* in preparation for
supporting brltty, a Braille TTY program which uses the serial port.
I'm also trying to put in serial console support at the same time.
These should make it into an upcoming November update.
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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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