[nfb-talk] Text Based Internet

[Jennifer Aberdeen]

That's what I told my friend; I told him that websites like Amazon had an 
accessible site...he didn't know this.

He doesn't think much of the ADA...although I don't think he meant it to 
sound this way, it sounded to me like he didn't believe in equal opportunity 
for everyone.

I think he was trying to help, but what he ended up with was another case of 
segregation and discrimination. It is really strange coming from someone who 
can't walk.

Jen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Renee M. Zelickson" <renee at zeli.net>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Text Based Internet


> You go girl!
> Most web sites I have com across lately, are presenting a text only 
> version
> of their site
> Quite frankly, I think the ADA is a joke; it has no teeth in it when it
> comes to accessible issues,  there seems to be on loop hole after another,
> and it doesn't seem to matter as much as I thought it would when it was
> first passed.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Aberdeen
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:55 PM
> To: NABS-L; NFB Talk Mailing List; BlindTalk
> Subject: [nfb-talk] 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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