Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Alon Altman
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Omer Zak wrote: http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/fcc98-146/ The most important issues today: 1. Alternate (non-hearing based) signalling of incoming Skype/Asterisk calls. Huh? Skype has a visual notice of incoming calls. Furthermore, why would a hard-of-hearing person use

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues: Alternate is not only visual signaller but also vibrator. If VoiP software does not already export an interface usable for activating a vibrator or a lamp (via parallel port, serial port

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:22 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues: Alternate is not only visual signaller but also vibrator. If VoiP software does not already export an interface usable

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues: If you're interested, I can show you a tiny piece of code I wrote that captures these beeps, and does something else (in my case, I wanted to flash the screen, and play a fancy beep music

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Alon Altman
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Omer Zak wrote: Why not use text-based communication that is accessible to both the deaf and the blind? Accessibility technology must be tailored to the needs of the person/s using it. Some people cannot use text based communication (due to illiteracy and/or dyslexia) so

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Ron Artstein
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Alon Altman wrote: If I understand correctly, the video accessibility problem may be relevant to deaf (or hard of hearing) people who are also illterate or dyslexic, but sill have access to modern computing equipment and a high-speed connection. Or people who are more

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:24 +0200, Alon Altman wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Omer Zak wrote: Why not use text-based communication that is accessible to both the deaf and the blind? Accessibility technology must be tailored to the needs of the person/s using it. Some people cannot use