[Blindtlk] Text Based Internet

[Sherri]

It's interesting that I was at an event passing out literature and talking 
about the NFB and someone who works for a blind lawyer asked me if we have 
our own internet browser, since it is so difficult to use Internet Explorer, 
Netscape and Firefox. I explained that most of us with some training use the 
available internet browsers quite well.

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria Whipple" <fairyfoot at dc4pc.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Text Based Internet


Good for you Jennifer!

Sounds like your friend doesn't want to understand.


Gloria Whipple
First board position
nfb of WA
Inland Empire Chapter

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jennifer Aberdeen
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:55 PM
To: NABS-L; NFB Talk Mailing List; BlindTalk
Subject: [Blindtlk] Text Based Internet

Hi everyone,

A friend and I were having a discussion and I thought I would bring it up
for discussion here.

My friend, who is not blind but uses a wheelchair, asked me one day last
week why the blind didn't have their own Internet. Annoyed, I asked him what
he meant by this question.

He said that he had no problem with us using the same Internet as he did,
but wouldn't it be easier if we didn't have to wait for graphics etc to
download while a page was loading.

I told him it wasn't really a big deal, we have trouble enter the characters
in those verification boxes without help because the box with the character
in them are graphical.

Anyway, he was arguing with me, saying that we should have our own
text-based Internet browser because the web developers will never make their
web pages fully accessible to us bla bla bla. I argued back telling him that
many web developers have made their websites more accessible and many more
will with some nagging from us; I told him it was a law under the ADA, which
started another totally different argument.

Today, he started this argument again, and I finally said, "Having a
text-based Internet Browser is not going to put an end to the capcha
problem. This is the only real obstacle we have when using the Internet,
aside from some totally inaccessible websites and computer programs." Then a
miracle happened, he agreed and shut up!

Anyway, I thought this might bring about some discussion. In my opinion, my
friend doesn't know what he's talking about...I'm not sure if I went about
winning the argument the right way, but I did shut him up, so I'm feeling
empowered at the moment, lol

Jen

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