From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lima.epix.net ([199.224.64.56]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XRMn-0001is-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:27:53 -0500 Received: from hudson.new.york (root@grmn-105ppp125.dialup.valstar.net [199.224.105.125]) by lima.epix.net (8.12.1/2001112001/PL) with ESMTP id g13IRk3I017703 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:27:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (hallenbeck@localhost) by hudson.new.york (8.11.4/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g13IRgH00372 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:27:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:27:42 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Hallenbeck To: Speakup Distribution List Subject: blind friendly or people friendly Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: 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)