[oclug] GUI vs cmdline mail (was Top if my head sugestion for enhancment to GUI mailclients.)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 28/06/03 Rod Giffin did speaketh:

> Actually, that's a very intuitive statement I hope wasn't made
> sarcastically.  The difference between a sighted programmer and a blind
> person is as cultural as it is anything else.  To date, most of the
> solutions has been screen magnification and voice interaction.  I'm not
> convinced at all this is the whole solution.  I'm working part-time with
> some blind people right now through an associate, which is going to get
> kind of funny at one point, because I'm a little over 1/2 deaf.

    Screen magnification doesn't help the completely blind. I know of at
least one individual who requires text and command-line interfaces to
interact with a computer, period. 

    Mike

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