SOFTWARE DREAMS ON THE WEB AND NET
"Through A Looking Glass Productions"

EMAIL STATIONARY
Notes And Commentary

Text By Superadaptoid


In the beginning Through A Looking Glass Productions were "Plain Vanilla" pre- formatted DOS, ASCII text, on-disk, Personalized E- Stationary for snail mail. Featuring speech- friendly, shareware/ freeware, word processing and screen magnification utilities included on- disk. The purpose was to provide a common and compatible framework to structure a variety of messages and purposes.

The following are a sample of a present day collection for all occasions, Online Attachments To Email Correspondence. Each has its' own subject or topic to communicate. Some for fun, Some to inform. Some save time, others save face. While some have their own "unique" message. Others have blank- space for you to fill- in your own "personal" communication. You are free to pick and choose. If you have your own comments and contributions to post:

Email to ... adaptoid@teleport.com


MESSAGES


FIRES OF HELL.
ERRORS OF SPELL.
GRAMMAR STEW.
A PUNCTUATED BREW.
I HOPE YOU DO NOT FIND THEM.
IT'S NOT MY MIND THAT DOES NOT KNOW.
MY EYES NO LONGER FIND THEM.

"Purgatory"
Wordsmith 97




I GOT IT !
The Message You Sent My Way.

READ IT !
I Will, And Have Something More To Say.

GET IT !
You Will, But Sorry, Not Today.

HOLD IT !
I Will Return Another Day.

TIME IT !
If You Don't Hear,
And I Don't Seek,
Try Again Later This Week.

THANK YOU.

Email to: adaptoid@teleport.com
Email to: adaptoid@hotmail.com

SuperAdaptoid 97




OOP'S !

TRANSMISSION ERROR

Grace and Manual Dexterity have gone away.
So here I am alone today.
Mind and body battle to have their way.
As hands and fingers want to play.

THE FIRST TRANSMISSION GOT AWAY.
This second one is what I forgot to say.

Thank you
SuperAdaptoid 97
adaptoid@hotmail.com




"TECHNOLOGY IS ONLY WHAT YOU FIND
Adaptation Is Your State Of Mind".

The SuperAdaptoid 95.




Why poetry?
Why prose?
Why rhythm?
Why rhyme?

The poetry of prose
supports the concept of
Self- Defined Meaning.
Specificity defeats the concept of
Being Self- Defined.

Linguistic encryption
writes its' own prescription.
Rather than a paradigm,
it's just a riddle in a rhyme.

What it means to me,
is only What I See.
What it means to you,
is anything You Want It To.

As the world is larger
than you and me;
the word is greater
than we can see.
An open mind
Requires No Key.

Break the lock.
Open the chest.
Define the treasure.
Join the QUEST.

As in the rights of passage,
you now have our message.
Not to mention.
Thanks for your attention.

"Got-Ch-Ah !"
SuperAdaptoid 97




PLEASE REMOVE
adaptoid@teleport.com
adaptoid@hotmail.com
FROM YOUR LIST
NOW !

THANK YOU:

FOR THE INFORMATION FLOOD
that drove me up a tree.

FOR ALL THE PICTURES
that I can never see.

FOR THE MANY JOBS
envelopes are no opportunity.

FOR THESE PRODUCTS
that really are not for me.

FOR THE MILLION DOLLARS
that will never be.

PLEASE CONFIRM AND RETURN
Reply Requested



FILL IN THE BLANKS



1. GRAPHICS AND FRAMES
Or Frames And Graphics.

If you can see them, they are pretty. If not they are pretty much the same. To the Sighted they are Terrific. With Low Vision they are a Strain. For the Blind, they Confound our speech program, to drive us both Insane.

HELP PLEASE !
LOW VISION ALERT.
BACKGROUND AND TEXT COLOR.

Living in a Sea - Of - Fog some Low - To - No Vision Computer Users customize MS Windows and Netscape screens to a low density, high contrast, color configuration. This means that there are no pastels, and borders are only color outlines. A black background makes green or gold text stand out like fog lights at night. Without the black background the fog returns, and we are awash in a Sea - Of - Light.

There is something on your site that defeats us:

 





Set your browser and see the world as we do. Please help, we would like to see the world with you.

"Background And Text Color"
SuperAdaptoid
adaptoid@teleport.com




2. GRAPHICS AND FRAMES
Or Frames And Graphics.

If you can see them, they are pretty. If not they are pretty much the same. To the Sighted they are Terrific. With Low Vision they are a Strain. For the Blind, they Confound our speech program, to drive us both Insane.

HELP PLEASE !
LOW VISION ALERT.
TEXT SIZE AND FONT SCALE.

Many Low - To - No Vision Computer Users customize their MS Windows and Netscape screen fonts to increase their text size. Rather than a #10 or #12, they use #18 through #28, [sometimes #36 to #72] bold fonts. Restrictive tags and hidden frames jumble text, as over - runs and over - laps lead to chaos.

There is something on your site that defeats us:



 

   

Set your browser and see the world as we do. Please help, we would like to see the world with you.

"Fonts, Tags, And Frames"
SuperAdaptoid
adaptoid@teleport.com




CONGRADULATIONS
Great Web Site

YOUR WEB PAGE IS A KNOCKOUT
It Stopped My Screen Reader Dead.

The very Graphics and Scrips, the "cool" ones, much adored and adorn. For the Blind they are both a Blessing and a Bomb. Some may terminate speech programs. Scramble screens. Cripple controls. While others just Hide the text, buttons, and links; or Play -Take- Away. Where only Crashes deliver us from Chaos, as JAVA Death restores the Calm.

These "Access Conflicts" are the result of two advancing technologies. Computers and Adaptive Technology changes annually; and runs behind Web Site Language Technology which sometimes advances monthly. To see this clearly add the advancement -of -technologies, to the Market Forces of industry, then the "Physical Factors" of Disability, and the "Human Factors" of the Disabled. Clearly another approach, by you and me, is needed. I wish I could tell you how directly. But frankly, without the screen reader, I just can't see.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ON YOUR OWN WEB PAGE.

This is really nothing special. It only takes some tips. Label your graphics. Limit tags and scrips. Isolate your frames. Indicate the options. Declare and dedicate a page.It's practical, more than technical.

Computing with a disability is already tough enough. You can make the change, a little bit each day. You can make it happen and really lead- the- way. All we are asking, is only fair play ... and END THE BLIND- MAN'S- BLUFF. Should you find this interesting, we suggest the following for reading:

START HERE WITH YAHOO:

Computers and Internet:
World Wide Web:
Page Design and Layout:
Accessibility
See: Yahoo Search Results.

Computers and Internet:
Information and Documentation:
Data Formats: HTML
See: Yahoo Search Results.

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

Giving Blind People Access to Graphics.
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~kurze/publications/se_95/swerg95.htm

Arts Wire - On-Line Access
Instructions for Users with Disabilities:
NCAM - National Center for Accessible Media.
New York Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/access.html

Speech Friendly Web Sites Award - Ribbon Sites.
http://www.wwwebit.com/magical-mist/home.htm

Accessible Web Site Guidelines - Index:
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html

Accessible Web Page Design.
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/web-desi.htm

DO-IT HTML - Guidelines:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Other/design.html

Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines:
http://trace.wisc.edu/text/guidelns/htmlgide/htmlgide.htm

Gilbert Healton's Home Page Resource Listings.
Author, Instructor, Programmer, User Of HTML
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/

Healton's "No Fluff Description Of Good HTML".
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/./nofhtml.html

Accessibility And VRML.
http://www.hprc.utoronto.ca:80/AdTech/rd/vrml/

Java Accessibility Program.
http://trace.wisc.edu:80/world/java/java.htm

SPEECH ACCESS FOR ALL
Text By Superadaptoid


EDITORIALS



MICRO-ECONOMICS
The Object Lesson

Just in case you missed it, the Law Of Physics has been repealed, along with the Principles Of Economics; and in the Stars we land on Mars. All while we witnessed the world's first Perpetual -Money- Machine:

WELCOME TO MICROSOFT.

Complete with "real time" profit margins, as well as new meaning to the "virtual" benefits -of- scale. Where volume supports -and- floats virtually everything, repelling the First Law Of Gravity.

If you bought the stock ... you made money.
If you bought the products ... you only spent money.
If you made the products ... you may be in a foreign country.
One way pays 3 -to- 1 ... the others pay $ -to- 0.

Like propheticy, demigods and demagogs, made in their own image- technology. Thanks to the miracle of "intellectual property" and the wonders of "virtual marketing". When they are big enough to afford anything; they still can not afford failure.

Never before in all of human history,
"Has So Little, Been Sold To So Many,
For So Much !"

Inside any box of software
"90% in -the- box is air"!

Achieving critical mass, with so much coming fast. Nothing to block the way, surely this will last. No wonder software companies build Empires. While their executives build Castles. Yet still the questions remain. Did we really learn to swim after The Third Wave came ?

"Micro-Economics 101"
SuperAdaptoid 97




A WORD ABOUT
GRAPHICS AND FRAMES
HELP !

If you can see them, they are pretty. If not they are pretty much the same. To the Sighted they are Terrific. With Low Vision they are a Strain. For the Blind, they Confound our speech program, to drive us both Insane.

Those of us with less- than- perfect sight are a growing population. It's no exaggeration. Failing eyesight, given time to age, you too will join our generation. Together we are destined to all become members of the ELDER NATION.

Were we to meet, upon the street today. Would you block our way? If we knock upon your door, would you send us all away? We too would like to communicate and participate. Person- to- person, around the world, and all across the nation.

In this day and age, everyone is a SAGE. In their mind, and on their own HOME PAGE. Everyone has their role- to- play. Everyone has something- to- say. Everyone is artistic and anyone is a critic.

ALWAYS A POINT- OF- VIEW.
WE HAVE ONE TOO.

When you have a story to tell, we would like to hear it too. If you have something to sell, we would like to buy from you. When you have information to share, we would like to share that too.

UNIVERSAL ACCESS IS OUR QUEST.

Our problem seeks a solution that is mutual. It's not that we are against it. We won't stop the revolution. Not that we won't benefit from the evolution. So here is what we want to say, while Web Pages become Multi- Media and Graphically- Beauty- Full.

Among the Disabled is a very special population of the Computer Enabled. Who are experiencing a new, and very different, relationship between Man- And- Machine. These are the computer Enhanced, the computer Assisted, the computer Adapted, and the computer Dependent.

AFFORD-ABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY.

Many are being left behind. Up- grades they can not afford to pay. Adaptive Computer Systems can cost thousands, and upgrades cost hundreds. Consumerism's Corporate Market Game they can't afford to play. Disability usually restricts both physically, as well as income and ability- to- pay.

WEB SITE GRAPHICS
AND DISABILITY ACCESS.

The very Graphics and Scrips, ones much adored and adorn, can be both a Blessing and a Bomb. Some may Terminate speech programs. Scramble screens. Cripple controls. While some just Hide the text, buttons, and links; or Play -Take- Away. Where Crashes deliver us from Chaos, as JAVA Death restores the Calm.

These "Access Conflicts" are the result of two advancing technologies. Computers and Adaptive Application Technology changes annually; and runs behind Web Site Language Technology which sometimes advances monthly. To see this clearly add the Advancement- Of- Technologies, to the Market Forces of industry, then the "Physical Factors" of Disability, and the "Human Factors" of the Disabled. Clearly another approach, by you and me, is needed.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ON YOUR OWN WEB PAGE.

This is really nothing special. It only takes some tips. Label your graphics. Limit tags and scrips. Isolate your frames. Indicate the options. Declare and dedicate a page.It's practical, more than technical.

Computing with a disability is already tough enough. You can make the change, a little bit each day. You can make it happen and really lead- the- way. All we are asking, is only fair play ... and END THE BLIND- MAN'S- BLUFF. Should you find this interesting, we suggest the following for reading:

START HERE WITH YAHOO:

Computers and Internet:
World Wide Web:
Page Design and Layout:
Accessibility
See: Yahoo Search Results.

Computers and Internet:
Information and Documentation:
Data Formats: HTML
See: Yahoo Search Results.

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

Giving Blind People Access to Graphics.
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~kurze/publications/se_95/swerg95.htm

Arts Wire - On-Line Access
Instructions for Users with Disabilities:
NCAM - National Center for Accessible Media.
New York Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/access.html

Speech Friendly Web Sites Award - Ribbon Sites.
http://www.wwwebit.com/magical-mist/home.htm

Accessible Web Site Guidelines - Index:
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html

Accessible Web Page Design.
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/web-desi.htm

DO-IT HTML - Guidelines:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Other/design.html

Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines:
http://trace.wisc.edu/text/guidelns/htmlgide/htmlgide.htm

Gilbert Healton's Home Page Resource Listings.
Author, Instructor, Programmer, User Of HTML
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/

Healton's "No Fluff Description Of Good HTML".
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/./nofhtml.html

Accessibility And VRML.
http://www.hprc.utoronto.ca:80/AdTech/rd/vrml/

Java Accessibility Program.
http://trace.wisc.edu:80/world/java/java.htm

WEB-ACCESS FOR ALL
Text By Superadaptoid




GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING BILL.

It's not that we are against it. We won't stop the revolution. Not that we won't benefit from the evolution. The pursuit of perfection we are seeking. Goes far beyond the "Bugs"; philosophically speaking.

Like iconology and idolatry were made by the religiously seeking.
Icons were made by idiots; graphically speaking.

So why do Low- To- No Vision Computer Users hate Microsoft still? Along with all the pretty- graphic- programs that were built by Bill. For the same reason Nomads in the Dessert hate Alexander Bell and his Pay Phone Company ... may they burn as well.

BECAUSE
LIFE IS HARD ENOUGH
WITHOUT FIDDLING SMALL CHANGE!

Consider the level- of- effort perpetual techno - change requires of the Disabled. Aside from the Slippery Slope of the Learning Curve, are the very personal issues of Survival, Safety, Security and Financial Viability. When On -The- Machine your life and lively hood depend.

Little wonder, those disabled who depend most upon the assistance of adapted computer technology, are the least likely to chance a change. Risking all, the tried- and- true, just to try something new.

"Graphically Speaking Bill"
SuperAdaptoid 97



PERSONALS



I write.
I wrote.
I have always written.

As if by birth.
Teachers teach.
Writers write.

Beyond the realm of
institution or publication.
They need no validation.

Regardless of education, or vocation.
Teachers still teach.
Writers still write.

It's the nature of the "natural".
A different kind of being.
A different way of seeing.
A complicating condition.
Compulsive and addictive.
Source of my affliction.

I WRITE.

The Natural.
Wordsmith 97



GOOD HUNTING AND ENJOY!
SUPERADAPTOID.

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