In principal, I agree. However, to many, my employers included, Microsoft is the industry. -Dave On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > I agree. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck at valstar.net> > To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:27 PM > Subject: blind friendly or people friendly > > > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
