Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Omer Zak
http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/fcc98-146/ The most important issues today: 1. Alternate (non-hearing based) signalling of incoming Skype/Asterisk calls. 2. Upstream bandwidth, quality and delay limits of video transmission via the Internet. --- Omer -- My Comm

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 Skype

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Omer Zak
Hello Alon, Thanks for your questions. They are important for a future FAQ document. On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 10:13 +0200, Alon Altman wrote: > 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) s

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 for ac

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

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 t

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 mo

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 ca

Re: Intent to resign

2005-12-07 חוט Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 08:43, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Tal Kaplan wrote: > > שלום לכולם, > > > > > > > > בהתאם להוראות התקנון והחוק ובהמשך לפנייתה של אורנה, > > > > > > > > אני סבור כי במועד האסיפה הכללית הקרובה צריכה העמותה לקיים הצבעה ולבחור > > חבר ועד *_אחד_* שיחליף את אורנה, וזאת עד לק

Re: New Look for http://welcome.linux.org.il/

2005-12-07 חוט Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:24, Nir Soffer wrote: > On 4 Dec, 2005, at 12:06, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Sunday 04 December 2005 01:31, Nir Soffer wrote: > >> On 4 Dec, 2005, at 0:10, Lior Kaplan wrote: > >>> I think we should stick we http://www.linux.org.il/ clean design... > >>> http://welcome.

Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues

2005-12-07 חוט Ehud Karni
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:22:25 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > In my opinion, not every application should deal on its own with "alerting" > the user, because a standard solution already exists: The X Windows beep. > Not only does it not require modifying every little application, and it is > completel