Hi, Sergei: Oh, I certainly agree that programmers should keep our needs in mind. Unfortunately, they need also to keep in mind the needs of people who do not hear, the people with no hands, the people who tend to flip chars in words, etc., etc., etc. There are many many kinds of disability, and accessibility is about all of these, not just blind braille users, or blind speech users, or low vision people, etc., etc. That's why it's important to develop clear ideas of responsibility, and to make sure that accessibility support is both thorough and sufficiently generic. Sergei V. Fleytin writes: > Hello, Janina, > > >>>>> "JS" == Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes: > > JS> Why would browsing by line, word, or char be a browser feature? It > JS> seems to me such functionality is the responsibility of the > JS> assistive technology, not the browser. > > > Janina, I agree with you in general, but in my opinion it is not a > very bad things when developers have our needs in mind. Those of us > who used DOS operating system in the past should remember how many DOS > applications included support for blind users and therefore made our > life easeire even when some of us used screen reader with very poor > functionality. Therefore I am very pleased that some of the linux > developers follow such a good practise. > > -- > With best regards, Sergei. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
