***loud shrill whistle*** folks, its time to lay this to rest, and get back to programming eh?as you can see I'm not responding to any of what was said, just trying to point out that this has been running more than long enough, and needs to be let go of in favor of items more to what this list is supposed to be doing, alright?
regards, inthane----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen S. Disbrow" <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:25 PMSubject: Re: Please place responses at the beginning of your email.Re: WhichLinux + screen reader to choose?
Hi,What makes you think because Windows does something a certain way that that makes it the standard. UNIX like systems like linux were around before Windows, and are probably closer to the standards thatSteve D. are defined in RFC's.----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:03 AMSubject: Re: Please place responses at the beginning of your email.Re: WhichLinux + screen reader to choose?I complain because you are not respecting the standards. Windows standards of writing mail, and not Linux standards.Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: "blind programming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:11 PMSubject: Re: Please place responses at the beginning of your email.Re: WhichLinux + screen reader to choose?On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:The most accessible and used mail client by the blind is Outlook Express and it cannot do what you suggest. We don't even need that, because most WindowsYou do, because you are complaining to me. Otherwise you would not complain.How do you know its the most used client anyway? I had over 100 hits on my thunderbird scripts page.users don't care about that.And it is not easy at all to keep pressing the shift key or the down arrow key to jump over the original message, because this takes time, exactly like it takes time to press the arrow keys to move the focus out of the textSimpley because you don't have a smart client.fields in a web page with those poor screen readers.No, you can arrow over them and all you do is navigate into and out of them with tab, shift + tab and insert left/right.-- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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