Over the years, IBM's done great work making technology accessible -- that is, reducing effects and limitations of diminished hearing, sight, mobility, etc. In the past, I've seen fat IBM handbooks describing platform-specific accessible technology -- though not lately.
But given ongoing research/development plus ADA requirements for reasonable accommodation, I suspect this is still an active area. The difference is likely that modern platforms are accessed by the same universal devices -- smartphones, tablets, workstations, PCs, Macs, whatever. (Keypunches and coax-connected 3270 terminals, not so much.) So that's where accessibility would be provided, at network edges. What's out there? What have you seen/used? I'll appreciate hearing real-life experiences about using mainframes with any hardware/software/network/etc. tools to overcome access limitations, along with pointers to tools. Thanks -- and as always, please copy replies to me directly so they're not buried in list digests. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
