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Re: [ENABLED] Making websites accessible
As a blind user of computers that use speech I use both Eudora
for win95 and a dos offline mail reader for mail sometimes.
Many blind people are still in the dos environment for whatever
reason, these speech programs run $700 sometimes, and the type
of message mentioned below is unreadable and not usable by a
blind person using a text e-mail program. I know when I receive
any html formatted mail I have to delete it as it is too
annoying to sit there and read html to get the message. I just
thought I would pass this on as I deal with it firsthand. I
personally prefer a text e-mail which cites the URL where I can
obtain more information. Unless specifically mentioned one can
not assume that a blind person is functioning in the windows
operating system.
tom Baccanti
http://users.deltanet.com/~tdb
Recently Paul Jackman <Host@AGRI-PIPE.COM> was overheard saying:
>Something you might try for making websites more accessible: I have found
>that most of the users computer OS like MS Windows 3.1, Win 95 etc. are
>preconfigured to open any e-mail attachments with .htm file names to be
>viewed by the browser.
>
> Therefore you can distribute your articles or any page in you web
>site with one simple attachment that will open the users browser and
>display a link to that article or any number of articles that are
>clickable.
>
> The user only has to double click the attachment then double click
>the link they want to view. I demonstrate this in our website, (under
>construction) If you would like to check it out just send me e-mail and I
>will return a simple test page via e-mail. Or you can go directly to the
>test at the website. <http://Agri-Pipe.com/test.htm>
>
>Regards,
>Paul Jackman
>Host@Agri-Pipe.com
>
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