Karen Lewellen wrote in <[email protected]\ world.net>: |On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> David Woolley wrote in <b37a4e09-2152-ac08-bbd8-fc5626749d9a@david-wooll\ |> ey.me.uk>: |>|On 05/11/2019 22:14, Karen Lewellen wrote: |>|> 1. I do not, cannot physically use the windows operating system. |>| |>|Even if you are blind, the in industry expectation is that you use a |>|program called JAWS, under Windows. In fact, many companies seem to |>|think that all that is necessary for their web site to be accessible is |>|that it can be used under JAWS. |>| |>|If you still want a non-graphical environment, Linux would be the |>|operating system of choice. |>| |>|Whilst there are standards for remoting accessing mail, there are no |>|effective ones for remotely accessing address books, etc., so if you use |>|a network based service for this you have to accept that they will be |>|targeting Windows users only, and any accessibility considerations will |>|assume the use of JAWS + Windows. |> |> They plan to overcome that with the JMAP protocol, the mail part |> of which became RFC 8621. |> |>|By insisting on MS-DOS, you are putting yourself in a position where it |>|is becoming increasingly difficult to support your usage.
|May I ask on what you base my *insistence* on ms dos? I did not say anything over DOS. Personally i was using 4DOS for some years, until about ~20 years ago. For years, at least five or six, i always want to install and try out FreeDOS, but did not make it even when they had their jubilee. Maybe someday i make it. |Unfortunately, due to an auditory processing disorder tied to a surgical |vascular accident, some frequencies, most software generated voices |stimulate the dizzy centres of my brain. |That means for me the safe ranges come from hardware sources, dectalk |specifically. |Given the quality of that speech, one would think those creating windows |based programs would have kept the patents and code for those voices. |Instead, one company bought another wasted resources and created |disturbingly poor quality speech instead. You could see me standing lost. |To be sure I prefer a low graphics environment. |Still as the saying goes DOS ain't dead, check out the djdpp project, or |even freedos. Yes, FreeDOS i would have interest in. And Haiku, too. |What is largely dead? the assumption that humans even if they share a |label , are still individuals, with unique bodies circumstances and |preferences. Yes, the individuals. But be aware of the masses. |The assumption, often perpetuated by consumer groups and software makers |is that all people sharing a label are Interchangeable. |Did Linux write drivers t incorporate dectalk in products like the reading |edge? no. |Can dos be a graphical platform, certainly. |Was access to basic html in gmail important to many, not even tied to |accessibility? |Absolutely, do a search for the phrase how do I access gmail in basic |html? and you will find lots and lots of lists where people discuss the |benefits for various reasons. |before you decide I am insisting on anything perhaps ask why the platform |is needful. Perhaps if more developers did not take a one user fits all |approach, I would have safer voices to use. Hm, hm. Well, well. I prefer the basic HTML too, on the other hand i am lucky not to have a need to go to the web interface, practically ever. Sometimes they force a login, sometimes mails are too large to become forwarded to the address stuff gets redirected to. (I do not really regulary use GMail as such no more, via POP3 / IMAP / SMTP that is, only for testing, for which i am thankful, i do have some GMail-only accounts, but these have practically no traffic, and they are also forwarded, only SMTPS it is for them, in practice.) I never used anything beyond plain email at GMail, not a crime, but a rhyme. He. Sorry. --End of <[email protected]> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
