thx for continuing the discussion on blinux-develop --Hans ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:00:33 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Internal data (was Re: Speech-enabling approach) Resent-Date: 15 Mar 1999 13:10:14 -0000 Resent-From: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Jason White wrote: >This is why it is important to try to influence the development of user >interfaces within the open-source/free software community, and elsewhere >for that matter, and to develop tools which can take advantage of whatever >sources of semantic and structural detail are available from within these >environments. This, of course, is entirely true, but a bit of an understatement. Even if all such tools were in place, the significant problem still remains that the majority of the web page designers, who still only care about making those pages look impressive to sighted people, need to be gently and politely convinced that they should expend all kinds of effort not only to use the new facilities, but also to learn how best to use them so that a blind person would actually benefit from them. -- Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2B 6G3 | if you're concerned about Hell. --- Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx with subject line: unsubscribe