While this might sometimes be the case. What if we can make the circle bigger or turn the square sideways? You see, if we keep saying things can't happen, then guess what: they won't. But accessibility is a constantly growing and shifting field, and I believe that absolutely anything is possible with some effort. I recently saw some flash animations that were fully accessible, or getting there. I would have never dreamed of this a year or two ago. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:43 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications Just my $.02 ... trying to add accessibility to a GUI model is like trying to stuff a square peg into a round hole. I personally think it just does not make sense to do this. It would be better to make an accessible version of the same software, one being completely text based. The problem is in the modality of how things are presented, invoked, prompted, etc. The two modalities (text and graphical) are just to different. -- Doug _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
