From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495942F765 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:26:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id f87JQri29736 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:26:53 -0400 Received: from ns.shellworld.net (IDENT:root@ns.shellworld.net [64.29.16.176]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f87JQqg29729 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:26:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (chomiak@localhost) by ns.shellworld.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07412 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:26:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Cheryl Homiak To: Subject: Re: The growing accessibility gap: was Ameritech.net In-Reply-To: <20010907121005.A13562@tak.net.dhis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Gppd observations! I will say for Ameritech that they were very helpful this morning explaining what buttons went with what functions on my cordless phone--a whole different department of course. I sometimes am concerned that we as blind people are losing the acces battle. In computers there are the Java and shockwave and flash issues, and whatever else is around the corner. In communications it's cordless phones and cell phones that may even have some talking functionality, buut you have to scroll through a silent menu to access the feature. In tv, it's menus ffor the tv and complex menus for the digital cable boxes. Not at all meaning to be negative, but I wonder if we are ever going to find successful ways to bridge these gaps in an ongoing manner. You can't blame sighted people for designing equipment that caters to their dominant physiical sense, but it sure makes it harder and harder for us to keep up. A long way from where this topic started, but do any of the rest of you have concerns about these things? Is anybody finding positive ways of dealing with them, especially if you don't have a sighted person around a lot of the time? Cheryl