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@REPLYADDR Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk>
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Newyana2 wrote:
> "Gary R. Schmidt" <
grschmidt@acm.org> wrote
>
> | If you are blind and rely on a screen-reader to read your email via the
> | web, it *does* matter.
> |
>
> I would expect most blind people read email in plain text.
> I do myself, simply for privacy and security. For the blind,
> plain text is much simpler for a screenreader to handle.
>
> I doubt that many, if any, blind people use cellphones. Even
> with a screenreader, the touchscreen UI would be maddening.
> (It`s already maddening for a sighted person.) Without a
> cellphone, Google makes it hard to access email.
[snip]
The virtue of a phone is that you only need hearing to be able to use
it. So an ordinary phone would be ideal for a blind person.
Sadly, it`s difficult (but probably not impossible) to find a cellphone
that a blind person can use - i.e. one with buttons that you can feel.
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Graham J
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