Re: Block Quote, on or off

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:54:13 -0800

Bill,
I get your point, and Francis's explanation helped, also.  I feel I have 
to explain that, though I'm a partial (high, low, I don't know where the 
line is), I can't clearly see a Web page in the way you describe, because 
the part of my retinal function that's gone includes the macula, though the 
blind area (the "scotoma," to use the correct term) extends outward much 
farther toward the far peripheries of my retinas.  So What I see appears to 
be a full screen view of the world, so to speak, but lacking a lot of 
details including people's faces (the head simply blanks out completely when 
I look straight at it), the actual details of a web page, and so forth.  The 
view is something like an unfinished or blotchy version of a French 
Impressionist canvas.  So even though I see my monitor right in front of me, 
when I look directly at the screen, it's just a play of light and shadow. 
Looking away from it, I can see out of the corner of my eye that there are 
more details, but if I look directly again, it all blurs again.  Just to 
help you understand that I'm using Jaws much more like a total than a high 
partial, even though I have a lot of useful vision for getting around, until 
the peripheral edges shut down, too.

Anyway, I'm glad we got into this topic because I wouldn't have thought to 
inquire this deeply into the feature, and besides, Francis  contributed a 
couple of links to truly educational material that will enhance my 
understanding of Jaws beyond the relative mastery, or at least facility, 
that I think of myself as having.
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Powers" <powersradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Block Quote, on or off


Daniel,

I think that the block quotes announcement does help people to figure out
what part of a page they are reading, especially if the page has indented
text or maybe things like sidebards, etc., that we as partially sighted
people would see, diferentiate and take for granted. I think it's a good
idea for most people to have the block quotes be announced to give the most
information about what they are reading. However, I don't like some of these
codes to be PRINTED on the page as I'm eyballing them.

Yes, I have 20/200 vision, so I have both central and peripheral vision. I
am a very lucky "high partial", while my wife is totally blind. Between us,
I get a good sense of how "partials" and "totals" navigate on the computer.

Bill

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