Nope. Gotta do work, expected to turn up from time to time for friday evening drinks unless I don't want to, get invited to parties, but nothing about who I date. Although I am not sure I was the employee in mind when the question was asked...;)
But hey, what kind of question is it anyway? We work hard here, and we enjoy ourselves. Nobody found the photo of Jon stripping off to go swimming at the staff party, or some of the other fun stuff we do. But we're not for sale. Not as a company if Microsoft or Google or someone waves their millions, not as individuals because someone is prepared to swap from Safari to another browser (<troll>that is better anyway - I can't believe you think we can be taken for granted like that!;) </troll> )
Well, it does seem like a troll. On the other hand respected organisations of the blind have done the judging and given out awards for accessibiltiy at pr0n industry events. Although they don't like to make a lot of song and dance about it, they get an awful lot of requests from their users.
One of the problems I have had with accessibility (a field I have worked in for 20 years on and off) is the idea that people with disabilities are, or should be, morally better than the rest, and are interested only in the wholesome parts of life. People are many and varied, and interested in lots of strange things...
The best one I have seen for non-geeks is called blindux, and was built in Columbia by Almiratech (in spanish) as a simplified linux-based system. It has mail (based on pine I think), web browsing based on one of the text-only browsers, text editing, a file manger and a calculator.
Yes it is limited. It is designed for people like your grandmother, who just want to do stuff and not have to learn about the whole computer. The alternative is to get a speaking version of linux like Oralux. More power, more options, more to learn.
The big drawback with Blindux is that as far as I know it is only in Spanish. Actually there is an OS designed for audio, developed in Brazil as open source. But it's only in portuguese. Come on english-speakers, catch up...
Yeah, Bobby has some problems, and gets a couple of things outright wrong. But the major problem is the number of things that it just doesn't get at all.
A recent spanish study found that one site passed all the Bobby tests, but was completely inaccessible. There are tools out there designed to get people involved enough to do the right testing.
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;) </troll> )
Nope. Gotta do work, expected to turn up from time to time for friday evening drinks unless I don't want to, get invited to parties, but nothing about who I date. Although I am not sure I was the employee in mind when the question was asked...
But hey, what kind of question is it anyway? We work hard here, and we enjoy ourselves. Nobody found the photo of Jon stripping off to go swimming at the staff party, or some of the other fun stuff we do. But we're not for sale. Not as a company if Microsoft or Google or someone waves their millions, not as individuals because someone is prepared to swap from Safari to another browser (<troll>that is better anyway - I can't believe you think we can be taken for granted like that!
Well, it does seem like a troll. On the other hand respected organisations of the blind have done the judging and given out awards for accessibiltiy at pr0n industry events. Although they don't like to make a lot of song and dance about it, they get an awful lot of requests from their users.
One of the problems I have had with accessibility (a field I have worked in for 20 years on and off) is the idea that people with disabilities are, or should be, morally better than the rest, and are interested only in the wholesome parts of life. People are many and varied, and interested in lots of strange things...
Yes it is limited. It is designed for people like your grandmother, who just want to do stuff and not have to learn about the whole computer. The alternative is to get a speaking version of linux like Oralux. More power, more options, more to learn.
The big drawback with Blindux is that as far as I know it is only in Spanish. Actually there is an OS designed for audio, developed in Brazil as open source. But it's only in portuguese. Come on english-speakers, catch up...
Yeah, Bobby has some problems, and gets a couple of things outright wrong. But the major problem is the number of things that it just doesn't get at all.
A recent spanish study found that one site passed all the Bobby tests, but was completely inaccessible. There are tools out there designed to get people involved enough to do the right testing.
If anyone speaks spanish and PHP and wants to work with accessibility and RDF, developing an application called Hera (two parts - One for manual stuff that's slow and an auto-test that is of course incomplete then llama-me ...