From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.33]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XRVn-0005o2-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:37:11 -0500 Received: from cp286066a ([68.50.224.13]) by femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20020203183713.YJDX12927.femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cp286066a>; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 10:37:13 -0800 Message-ID: <00ef01c1ace1$cc5d7320$0de03244@cp286066a> From: "David Poehlman" To: , "Speakup Distribution List" References: Subject: Re: blind friendly or people friendly Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:37:12 -0500 Organization: Hands-on Technolog(eye)s X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I agree. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" To: "Speakup Distribution List" Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:27 PM Subject: blind friendly or people friendly All the recent posts about how to configure outlook express to be "blind friendly" is a little troubling to me. It seems to me that the issue is bigger than that. There are industry standards, and there are Microsoft standards, and often the problem comes because the two are not the same. One way to resolve the problem is for everyone, blind or otherwise, to use outlook express and thus use Microsoft standards everywhere. But the world is larger than Microsoft, and many of us who use Linux follow the industry standard - e.g., plain text for email, iso8859-1 for a standard western character set, and the like. Another way to resolve the problem is for users of outlook express, blind or otherwise, to configure their software to adhere to industry standards rather than Microsoft standards. I think that is very different from being "blind friendly"... It is being "people friendly". Grumpily - Chuck Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Gibbous (59% of Full) _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup