Text By Superadaptoid
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:
"Purgatory"
Wordsmith 97
Email to: adaptoid@teleport.com
Email to: adaptoid@hotmail.com
SuperAdaptoid 97
Thank you
SuperAdaptoid 97
adaptoid@hotmail.com
The SuperAdaptoid 95.
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
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.
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.
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:
Computers and Internet:
Information and Documentation:
Data Formats: HTML
See: Yahoo Search Results.
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. 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.
WE HAVE ONE 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 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.
AND DISABILITY ACCESS.
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 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.
ON YOUR OWN WEB PAGE.
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.htmArts 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.htmlSpeech Friendly Web Sites Award - Ribbon Sites.
http://www.wwwebit.com/magical-mist/home.htmAccessible Web Site Guidelines - Index:
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.htmlAccessible Web Page Design.
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/web-desi.htmDO-IT HTML - Guidelines:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Other/design.htmlUnified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines:
http://trace.wisc.edu/text/guidelns/htmlgide/htmlgide.htmGilbert 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.htmlAccessibility And VRML.
http://www.hprc.utoronto.ca:80/AdTech/rd/vrml/Java Accessibility Program.
http://trace.wisc.edu:80/world/java/java.htmWEB-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.