From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XRpl-0006ur-00; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:57:49 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g13IslQ12097; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:54:48 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca cc: Speakup Distribution List Subject: Re: blind friendly or people friendly In-Reply-To: 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: Chuck: Let's hope the judge knows how to spell monopoly. On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org