[Alpine-info] Seeking someone who..?

[Karen Lewellen]

Carlos,
It is the united nations convention  on the rights of people *with 
disabilities*.
not for the blind.
It is the Americans  with *disabilities* act, not the blind.
It is the Ontarian or Manitoba's with *disabilities*  etc.
Inclusion from a computer or website standpoint according to the w3c is 
not about blindness, or tool. It is about interaction.
Does it work with the keyboard for example..here are two such guidelines.

Guideline 4.1 Compatible: Maximize compatibility with current and
future user agents, including assistive technologies.

Guideline 2.1 Keyboard Accessible: Make all functionality
available from a keyboard.

  You are, understandably given  the "we have blind googlers!" statement 
assuming that the hundreds of millions of people on this planet who may 
have  a diagnosis related to sight loss are..all in the dark, all use 
speech,  in short are interchangeable for one another.
and more than that population are entitled to access, what happens if you 
experience paraplegia, or are  dyslexic..that population uses screen 
readers too.
your question assumes that no individual human experience, ability, 
patterns for learning, environment can exist within this population, and 
that is simply not the case.
Odd example, but that is like saying cannot laws about ethnic groups who 
are of Asian heritage simply be applied to those who identify as 
indigenous?
That answer is no.
In fact that is what web content access guidelines are about..keeping 
folks from   focusing on the body, or the disability if you will.
Does that resonate?
Kare


  On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:


> On 2023-11-30 22:22, Karen Lewellen wrote:

>>  Hi, thanks for joining the discussion.

>>  A screen reader at its most basic is a talking monitor.

>

> I just wondered, couldn't a blind people organization (such as ONCE in Spain) 

> design a mail client that works solely with speech? And another (or the same 

> one) designed for braille machines?

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> You know that there are even simpler mail programs than Alpine for text mode. 

> For instance, in Linux there is "mailx".

>

> Configuration is not simple, though.

>

> -- 

> Cheers / Saludos,

>

> 		Carlos E. R.

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