- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:17:41 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
No, sounds interesting, I'm forwarding it to the WAI ER group. Has anybody heard of BIS before ? > as-tu vu cela ? > > http://sgi.felk.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/toASCII/Research/bis/ > > Development of Information Technologies (IT) at the end of 20th > century brought two main changes for blind people. The first, > positive one, can be described as extensive electronic communication > (mainly Internet - e-mail and WEB), which gave blind people the > ability to work and communicate with other people at nearly the same > level as non-blind people. The second, negative change (for blinds), > can be found in more intensive use of graphical representation of > information - graphical user interface (GUI) with pictures and visual > effects. The problem of graphical information is based on its very > difficult presentation for blinds caused by complicated structure of > graphical information. The use of GUI is very complicated for blinds > because the communication in standard computer environment is based > on the use of pointing devices (e.g. mouse), which is totally > unacceptable for blind. > > -- > Karl Dubost - http://www.la-grange.net/ > Près de vous, madame, oubliant les cieux, > L'astronome étonné se trouble; > C'est dans l'éclat caressant de vos yeux, > Qu'il avait cru trouver l'étoile double.
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