Hi Rich,
firmly owning that I am speaking personally, and fully realizing you
write from a positive place, I am a little confused by your question.
Have you ever done a search on yourself?
YOu might be surprised just how much is actually archived, from lists and
the like.
I will add that because there is, again speaking absolutely personally, no
such thing as a uniform approach to technology by those who live with
sight loss, there is not going to be a solution based on such a concept.
a shared label does not a shared experience make. Many not using adaptive
tools use html, and text..the program Rudy suggested was not written for
those experiencing sight loss. I imagine little about Linux was created
from this dictionary.
This group is hosted at google groups, unless the list is private, I
imagine searches produce posts here, although I might be mistaken. Google
grows increasing less friendly to those preferring lower graphics
environments, many many people are upset about losing gmail in basic html,
who do not experience sight loss in any fashion.
So, at least for me speaking personally, I do not fully understand what
you are asking if that makes sense?
Which it may not laughs.
Karen
On Sun, 25 Feb 2024, Rich Morin wrote:
Reading the recent discussion of tools to convert docx files to text, I was reminded of thoughts I've had about archival social media for the blind. Of course, as a sighted person, my thoughts may well be ill-considered, but I figure it can't hurt to ask for folks' reactions.
Basically, it seems odd to me that there aren't (AFAIK) any comprehensive forums, let alone wikis, that serve the blind and visually disabled. So, for example, Karen's question and Rudy's answer are very likely to be forgotten in fairly short order. Of course, if a mailing list is archived and then harvested by an LLM, the information might be preserved. However, that's more of a possibility than a certainty.
So, here's my question: What form(s) of social media might work well to record and preserve the thoughts and discoveries of the blind and visually disabled? Is there already something that I simply don't know about?
-r
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