Hi, Well I guess I did not want to get into a big duscussion of this, but you raise points worth answering and thanks for doing so. People will not know anything about anything unless there is an original introduction to it. So if the Prof get a text file, then he would seek to know how to handle it. Just as his becoming enlightened by your reference to notepad, so too would he be in a position to understand use a text document. Whether a text document is appropriate to the setting is a good question though. If we left it at that, then all would be more or less settled, but what about our rights as blind folks to access? Are they conditioned upon having to use what the employer for example uses? Well, the truth is that they aare. An employer has the right to utilize any software they want and as long as we too can use it, then we have to learn it. So the challenge to blind linux users is to relate to the windows world not as an us versus them, but as a reality check on others who use windows. It gets a bit tricky because of the accessibility issues and the relative ease of use issue. If we have to go climbing mountains that others do not have to climb to use a product, then that is not equal access, but our success in getting at least a couple of Windows programs to work well with access techincurrs a rsponsibility on our part to use that technology when required. So we are back where we began. We may not like having to use Ms-Word or Ms-anything, but if it is the standard that is accessible as well, then we have to do it. Responding to an MS-Word attachment with a text file is ok since it equally affords the reader with the same information presented in a different format. Would like to write more, but there goes that phone again. -- charlie Crawford.
