Chuck: Let's hope the judge knows how to spell monopoly. On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
