From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 4022 invoked by uid 0); 16 Oct 1996 20:08:09 -0000 MBOX-Line: From poehlman@clark.net Wed Oct 16 22:07:03 1996 Received: (qmail 2384 invoked by uid 504); 16 Oct 1996 19:10:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 2365 invoked from smtpd); 16 Oct 1996 19:10:37 -0000 Received: from cublx2.cube.net (root@194.97.64.61) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 16 Oct 1996 19:09:17 -0000 Received: from mail.clark.net ([168.143.0.10]) by cublx2.cube.net with ESMTP id <25125-404>; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:19:53 +0200 Received: from explorer2.clark.net (poehlman@explorer2.clark.net [168.143.0.5]) by mail.clark.net (8.7.3/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA24750; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (poehlman@localhost) by explorer2.clark.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA16533; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:16:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: explorer2.clark.net: poehlman owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:16:57 -0400 (EDT) From: David Poehlman Sender: poehlman@clark.net To: Hans Zoebelein cc: blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net Subject: Re: Survey results: Linux braille documentation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Speaking to the last point, the braille would be handled in a couple of ways none of which would seriously impair the timeliness of their production. For hard copy since the documentation will already be on diskette, it would be no problem to produce it quickly. here are the ways again. it would be archived in ready to braille format for anyone with an embosser who chooses to braill thyself, it would be sent to a professional house gathered for this purpose to braille and disceminate upon request. It would be brailled on request by individuals who are known to be available for this process. in other words. the documentation would be announced and then requested. Don't forget that if it is on the web in braille, it would also be readable electronically by people with the equipment to take advantage of it. concievably, this port too could be printed directly from the web to an embosser. I anticipate little to no lagtime in any of these processes. Thank you! On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Hans Zoebelein wrote: > Dear Blinux subscriber, > > thanks to you all who contributed to the braille documentation for Linux > survery. > > So here come the results. Subject was: "Move your a.." posted at > blinux-list on 10.Sep.1996. Since sometimes more than one option > was used, the sum of percentages may be more than 100%. > > We had a total of 38 contributions. > > 24 contributions (63%) from registerd blinux-list subscribers. > 14 contributions (37%) from blind-l subscribers where this survey was > posted also. (BLIND-L@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU is a busy list which deals about > support for the computer user who is blind) > > 24 posters (63%) announced interest for Linux braille documentation. > 5 posters (13%) had no interest in Linux braille docu "forget it..." > 3 posters (8%) remarked that they were not blind. > 5 posters (13%) didn't know/had no interest in Linux (all from blind-l). > 8 posters (21%) said, that they would prefer some sort of software or > hardware filter which would be able to transfer normal Linux man pages > into braille or spoken words. > > Some people brought up the thought, that braille documentation would be > always late since the develeopment speed of Linux is really fast, so that > the normal man pages are often outdated, not to speak about braille > documentation. This seems to be a vaild point. > > > > > -- > Hans Zoebelein You are interested in Linux blind support? > zocki@goldfish.cube.net Join the blinux mailing list and mail to: > *I'm a poker player, blinux-list-request@goldfish.cube.net > *I don't believe in gambling. with subject line: subscribe > > > > > > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@goldfish.cube.net > with subject line: unsubscribe > > Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 E-mail: poehlman@clark.net ftp: ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman url: http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman