Re: Accessable Chat

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Christian Seus wrote:

> I am looking for opinions and experiences on accessible chat rooms.

what's wrong with IRC

Bob
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> I am in the market to purchase a chat program that could be used as an added feature on mostly health care related websites.
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> Is there an accessible chat program that is currently on the market?  Has anyone used accessible chat programs with a great ease of use?
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> What would be your stance on a website that had a chat room that wasn't accessible to all users?  Do you just not have chat?  Or would you tolerate it?
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> Thank you for your thoughts,
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> Christian
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> Christian Seus 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: Access Systems
> Cc: WAI (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: GW Micro Helps Make Macromedia Flash Content Accessible to People Who Are Blind
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> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Access Systems wrote:
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>   On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
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>   > ASCII text is not a solution that works. "ASCII art" - using text characters
>   > and layout to represent graphic content - is an extremely poor choice for
>   > making graphics that can be presented to users of braille, or people using
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>   wasn't suggesting that it be used for graphics, your right almost no way a
>   person using a braille or text to speech reader could understand it.
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>   that is where the alt tag is handy
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> OK, so it seems we are in agreement on that bit.
> Bob also said
>   I was pretty sure there was a text set for most languages, I have seen the
>   Japanese version
> [snip]
>   there is no one single method that everyone can use, but there is a single
>   language that every computer can use and that is ASCII.
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> CMN
> OK, I think we are getting closer. ASCII is a way of encoding a particular
> set of characters - those used in American English. (Actually not all
> computers can use it - IBM computers used a different system for a long
> time...) There are equivalent systems for other kinds of characters - and
> Unicode (also called ISO-10646, or some other names) is the one most commonly
> recommended because it includes almost all characters used today, some no
> longer used, and some for only strange usages like the "klingon language"
> invented by fans of star trek. (In 64000 characters I guess the first few
> people to add their own silly ideas get to have a bit of space. I would
> have preferred Mayan, but there are probably more  speakers of Klingon!).
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> CHeers
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> Chaals
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