*taking a deep breath*, *counting to ten*,
*reciting mantra's to calm my spirit*
teddy, one doesn't become a professional foot ball player in the NFL by
being better than the worst foot ball player, or by being even with the
average players despite his having only half of his right foot...
one does not become a respected and well paid attorney by being just
better
than someone who knows nothing about the intricacies of the law, nor a
professional class skier by being equal to sighted average skiers, despite
the fact that the gentleman is both blind and a double amputee...
one does not earn the title of fencing master, even sighted, by only
fencing
with those who are average with a foil, or by fencing only with those who
are blind, even if one is blind themselves...
these are the types of people I am talking about, they are masters of
there
fields, despite there disadvantages, not over those who don't or haven't
learned how, I'm talking about people with distinct disadvantages that
makes
there choice of work seem ridiculous to many, and force the world to
recognize that if one wishes to, and is willing to do what is required to
accomplish it, that they can be a top gun in there field, no matter
what...
quit with the f... reeking you can't, because if one of us wishes to put
forth the effort, and the time, we can, period end of quote!
inthane
. For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and
Links
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
> Oh yes that could be true. There are sighted persons that don't even
> know
> how to use a computer. So we can say that we as web designers are better
> at web design than them. But who cares that we can be better than those
> sighted that don't know too many things?
> We should be better comparing us with the medium-skilled sighted web
> designer.... at least.
> But unfortunately a medium-skilled web designer might know to create
> images, maybe a little Flash, some Javascript, and nobody will care that
> he doesn't put a document type declaration at the top of his web pages,
> or
> that his pages won't be W3C compliant.
>
> If you will check the Google's web page with the W3C's html validator,
> it
> will tell you:
>
> Failed validation, 30 Errors
>
> So... of course W3C's validator is not important at all, because
> Google's
> page is very accessible, very simple, and with a design.... better said
> almost without any design.
>
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
>
>
>> teddy that is far from what I meant, my computer locked up on my
>> previous
>> reply, so I'll take my time since I seem to have a habit of overloading
>> my machine, and I'll get back on this later, if I don't decide it
>> doesn't
>> warrant a reply when I cool down...
>>
>> I can tell you about a number of "handicapped" people that have
>> mastered
>> areas that are thought of as "sighted and fit" only areas as well or
>> better than most of there "whole and healthy" fellow humans
>>
>> laters,
>> inthane
>> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and
>> Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit
>> me
>> at:
>> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
>> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several
>> programming
>> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
>> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
>>
>>
>>> Oh yes, that's true, and sometimes the screen reader doesn't even show
>>> us the correct colors, and even if it show us that 2 words come one
>>> after another in the same line, it doesn't tell us that maybe the
>>> first
>>> is a static word in a iframe element and the other one is a text
>>> written
>>> dynamicly by a javascript code, and it might scroll slowly up or down
>>> becoming very confusing for us at a page refresh.
>>>
>>> I think we shouldn't fight for beeing what we can't be. Oh yes, there
>>> are handicapped people without a leg that participate in different
>>> sports, showing that they can do more, but we all know that they will
>>> never be equal to a healthy person, no matter how good or bad he is.
>>>
>>> And let's not forget that the productivity of the work is also
>>> important. What we can do would have a very low value if we would be
>>> able to do it in a much longer period than a sighted designer.
>>>
>>> Octavian
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
>>>
>>>
>>>> which except for rare occasions is not practical Marlon, since we
>>>> live
>>>> in a sighted world, and the majority of folks that we are going to
>>>> need
>>>> to deal with are sighted, I'm sorry that you have no experience in
>>>> the
>>>> visual view of things, this is one area where I have an advantage.
>>>>
>>>> but... you can't avoid the visual world, it's out there, it's the
>>>> majority, and so you might as well learn the tricks for dealing with
>>>> it, use the standards and templates when and where you can, and do
>>>> your best to adapt.
>>>>
>>>> the best description for trying to convey sight to a person that has
>>>> never had it, was spoken by a blind dude that never had sight in his
>>>> life,
>>>>
>>>> its the description I use now a days, since I have found myself often
>>>> trying to describe visual aspects to those who have never had site.
>>>>
>>>> one thing you should do if you haven't, go to a web site, keep
>>>> yourself
>>>> at the top of the page, and turn on the invisible cursor and go up
>>>> and
>>>> down the page to see what it actually looks like, such as, the that
>>>> that instead of the vertical column that jaws presents us with, that
>>>> its actually more like a message written in Braille, including the
>>>> navigation links which run from left to right across the page, not in
>>>> the vertical column that is presented to us.
>>>>
>>>> take care, and good luck,
>>>> inthane
>>>> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and
>>>> Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications,
>>>> visit
>>>> me at:
>>>> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
>>>> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several
>>>> programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
>>>> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:01 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello folks,
>>>>> Well I have never seen ... so I have no a ... let's call it ...
>>>>> visual
>>>>> standards so, although I can technically do it very well ... I can
>>>>> not
>>>>> plan, like imagine, build ... a nice visual interface, because I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> know what it is expected. A quick example is I beleaved gfirmly that
>>>>> the windows explorer put the folder treeview in the top and the
>>>>> listview below it, and I couldn't beleave when a guy tould me
>>>>> naturally that the treeview was in the left and the listview was in
>>>>> the right!!!!
>>>>> Similarly, because of the top down aproach most part of screen
>>>>> readers
>>>>> use to present web content, I have dificulties to imagine hwat
>>>>> exactly
>>>>> sighted people expect to see in a webpage or something like this.
>>>>> I can plan the components of the interface, but deciding * and
>>>>> putting
>>>>> * them in the more "apropriate" place or planning what would happen
>>>>> if
>>>>> one changes their screen resolution or diicovering by teory how
>>>>> browsers would react to it without testing is something very
>>>>> different.
>>>>> If I had been sighted (and lost my sight after the modern look and
>>>>> feel's I perhaps would be totally able to build interfaces based on
>>>>> the standards of what should be common to folks, but the only thing
>>>>> I
>>>>> can do for now is build an interface based on someone's
>>>>> specifications. And even then I will spend eforts trying to build
>>>>> something which belongs to a group of situations that I can't
>>>>> imagine
>>>>> very well ... and, again, I wouldn't be able to test my own work,
>>>>> which seen something pretty nasty to any [programmer I know of ...
>>>>> now
>>>>> the point is: For sure many blind folks can do gui's, but they will
>>>>> feel more confortable and be more productive if they're doing
>>>>> something which has not a visual result as its goal ... which should
>>>>> be perfectly logical.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Marlon
>>>>>
>>>>> 2007/11/28, jaffar <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> Hi Jim. Excellent news. Congrats Jeff. Just shows what, if you
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> forgive the pun, application will do for one, not to mention hard
>>>>>> work and
>>>>>> determination, and the willingness to try. Cheers!
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:42 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Team Excellence Award Winner
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Hi All,
>>>>>> > Where I consult, one of our fellow listers was on a team who won
>>>>>> > a
>>>>>> > very
>>>>>> > prestigious award. The team developed a highly visible web
>>>>>> > application.
>>>>>> > Jeff Fidler designed and coded the GUI interface for the site
>>>>>> > using
>>>>>> > HTML,
>>>>>> > CSS and Javascript. He used Section 508 and W3C techniques and
>>>>>> > the
>>>>>> > sighted
>>>>>> > people in the company rave about it.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I write this to urge anyone who thinks that someone who is blind
>>>>>> > cannot
>>>>>> > design Web interfaces well to keep on trying. You can do it.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Jim
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
>>>>>> > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can
>>>>>> > change the
>>>>>> > world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret
>>>>>> > Mead
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>> stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for
>>>>> free."
>>>>> Linus Torvalds
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