Most people aren't telecommuters and we aren't going back to the symmetrical world. That world was a world of neckbeards, alt.religion.kibology, gopher, and hytelnet.
The days of alt.religion.kibology were much more fun, symmetrical or not.
Also, you must be a gamer NTTIAWWT, elsewise, how would you know the term 'neckbeard'?
Also, also, I was just talking to my daughter yesterday about how modern social media is in serious need of a crossposting capability like they had in newsfroups. Facebook could use some wacky, harmless old school kibological trollery.
True, true. Downloading meaningful video streams to a cell phone with GSM or even GPRS is not going to be feasible any time soon because of bandwidth restrictions. (Although we have chalkers here, and that WiFi SD card...)
But convergence is here already, even if it's not realtime convergence. C'mon over to my house, and I'll show you how I do it on my TMobile PocketPC phone.
1) Record films/shows to PC with WinTV and SnapStream. (Alternately, download saved shows from TiVo with WinTV and WinDVR.)
2) Use SnapStream's Pocket PC converter or Windows Media Encoder to munge down the size of the file.
3a) Enable SnapStream server. Leave house.
4a) Dial into ISP from PocketPC Phone, connect to SnapStream server, and stream video files (takes a long-ass time).
OR
3b) Save shrunken.WMV files to phone's SD expansion card.
4b) Leave house.
5) Watch whatever the hell you want wherever the hell you want to in Media Player. Yesterday, rather than leafing through germ-laden back issues of Good Housekeeping as I whiled away an hour in the doctor's waiting room, I watched "The Sopranos", while at the same time waiting on hold with the veteranarian's office.
Oh, and then at the vet's office, I read an eBook.
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Try this. Just convert the cable from PC to your flavor of PDA, and write a driver.:-)
Similarly, is there a way a blind person can input stuff into a handheld using braille input.
Um, who uses "Braille input"? Most blind people type on regular keyboards that have raised Braille characters on the faces of the keys...all you need to do is get a PDA keyboard from Targus, and put Braille letter stickers on the keys. Easy peasy.
I work with students who have disabilities, including blindness and low vision. Their suggestions include, in no particular order:
Become a crusader for well-written cascading style sheets. Unfortunately, most of those people who fancy themselves "artists" and web "designers" don't realize that those teeny little font sizes that they're hard coding mean that huge numbers of people can't read their web sites. When you work with developers, tell them that instead of using hard-coded font sizes )12pt or 12px) they should use RELATIVE font sizes (.85 em) -- Point and pixel sizes remain fixed, while em sizes will scale based on the base font size the user has chosen. SOME day, web developers will win out over web "designers".
Get the largest monitor you can afford. If your vision is bad enough, TFT or CRT doesn't seem to matter, as long as you can keep the glare down and the contrast.
Of course, turn up your screen resolution. The greying of the web means more and more people are using a 800x600 screen resolution. If that winds up not being enough, you'll have to use Windows, and get adaptive software, such as ZoomText (for screen magnification) and/or Jaws 8 (for screen reading). One student recommends learning how to use screen reading software NOW, rather than trying to learn it when you don't have any more options, should that time come.
Put Betsie on your server in some place you can access (but no one else knows about), so you can get better access to bozo-designed web pages.
I recommend every web designer and developer use screen reading software such as Jaws and accseeibility parsers such as Betsie to get an idea how accessible your web sites are for people who are blind and have low vision.
Frankly, most of the problematic issues are cropping up because developers forgot to keep the *style* of their HTML separate from the *structure* of their HTML.
Stylesheets have been around for _years_. And while browsers don't have great support for the full spec, most presentational aspects such as font, size, color, etc. work well cross-browser.
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Most people aren't telecommuters and we aren't going back to the symmetrical world. That world was a world of neckbeards, alt.religion.kibology, gopher, and hytelnet.
The days of alt.religion.kibology were much more fun, symmetrical or not.
Also, you must be a gamer NTTIAWWT, elsewise, how would you know the term 'neckbeard'?
Also, also, I was just talking to my daughter yesterday about how modern social media is in serious need of a crossposting capability like they had in newsfroups. Facebook could use some wacky, harmless old school kibological trollery.
HELLO SLASHDOT THIS IS A PENCIL.
True, true. Downloading meaningful video streams to a cell phone with GSM or even GPRS is not going to be feasible any time soon because of bandwidth restrictions. (Although we have chalkers here, and that WiFi SD card...)
.WMV files to phone's SD expansion card.
But convergence is here already, even if it's not realtime convergence. C'mon over to my house, and I'll show you how I do it on my TMobile PocketPC phone.
1) Record films/shows to PC with WinTV and SnapStream. (Alternately, download saved shows from TiVo with WinTV and WinDVR.)
2) Use SnapStream's Pocket PC converter or Windows Media Encoder to munge down the size of the file.
3a) Enable SnapStream server. Leave house.
4a) Dial into ISP from PocketPC Phone, connect to SnapStream server, and stream video files (takes a long-ass time).
OR
3b) Save shrunken
4b) Leave house.
5) Watch whatever the hell you want wherever the hell you want to in Media Player. Yesterday, rather than leafing through germ-laden back issues of Good Housekeeping as I whiled away an hour in the doctor's waiting room, I watched "The Sopranos", while at the same time waiting on hold with the veteranarian's office.
Oh, and then at the vet's office, I read an eBook.
What? Networked CAVE Quake isn't legal???
Try this. Just convert the cable from PC to your flavor of PDA, and write a driver. :-)
Similarly, is there a way a blind person can input stuff into a handheld using braille input.
Um, who uses "Braille input"? Most blind people type on regular keyboards that have raised Braille characters on the faces of the keys...all you need to do is get a PDA keyboard from Targus, and put Braille letter stickers on the keys. Easy peasy.
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Become a crusader for well-written cascading style sheets. Unfortunately, most of those people who fancy themselves "artists" and web "designers" don't realize that those teeny little font sizes that they're hard coding mean that huge numbers of people can't read their web sites. When you work with developers, tell them that instead of using hard-coded font sizes )12pt or 12px) they should use RELATIVE font sizes (.85 em) -- Point and pixel sizes remain fixed, while em sizes will scale based on the base font size the user has chosen. SOME day, web developers will win out over web "designers".
- Get the largest monitor you can afford. If your vision is bad enough, TFT or CRT doesn't seem to matter, as long as you can keep the glare down and the contrast.
- Of course, turn up your screen resolution. The greying of the web means more and more people are using a 800x600 screen resolution. If that winds up not being enough, you'll have to use Windows, and get adaptive software, such as ZoomText (for screen magnification) and/or Jaws 8 (for screen reading). One student recommends learning how to use screen reading software NOW, rather than trying to learn it when you don't have any more options, should that time come.
- Put Betsie on your server in some place you can access (but no one else knows about), so you can get better access to bozo-designed web pages.
I recommend every web designer and developer use screen reading software such as Jaws and accseeibility parsers such as Betsie to get an idea how accessible your web sites are for people who are blind and have low vision.No, not like that. <font></font> is deprecated.
Frankly, most of the problematic issues are cropping up because developers forgot to keep the *style* of their HTML separate from the *structure* of their HTML.
Stylesheets have been around for _years_. And while browsers don't have great support for the full spec, most presentational aspects such as font, size, color, etc. work well cross-browser.
<!DOCTYPE...>
<html>
<head>
<title>Foo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/lowvis.css">
</head>
<body>
<!--#include file="structured_content.html"-->
</body>
</html>