- From: Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita@ramin.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:07:06 +1000
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: <snip> > It is important to remember that there are a lot of different use cases > competing in accessibility (there are relatively few people who have > ever come across deaf-blind computer users and know how they work with > the web, and I am pretty surprised that even the brightest dyslexic > people I know manage to follow enough of this group to contribute to > it). When we get input from deaf users and deafness experts (people who > know what they are talkiong about and have tested it), it will get even > more interesting, I suspect... The focus in the hearing impaired community has been on TV to date. <http://www.deafnessforum.org.au/capqual_campaign.htm> With regard to the Linux stuff and other multiuser operating systems, the architecture is quite different - it is multi user and you can have dedicated special devices connected - in the old days we called them terminals. I attended a presentation by a blind speaker about the Accessibility of Linux. The discussion was whether messages at startup etc were useful. The speaker pointed out that as with a sighted person, they like to know what their computer is doing. On this note, the topic of accessibility of authoring tools is something worth bearing in mind. M -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202
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