Re: Designing for WebTV

In fact:  I know a good number of blind users who still use telnet.  I tried it once and didn't like
the way JAWS Job Access With Speech behaved.  Some of the folks are still stuck in DOS!
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Bill-P23393" <Bill.Austin(at)motorola.com>
To: "'Lauren Hanka'" <bluejay(at)starband.net>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: Designing for WebTV


If you think that is bad, log into telnet://aztec2.asu.edu   -- userid: guest password: visitor  and
get an account then try item 13 on the menu.  Hit "g" for go and type in some addresses and see how
some of you favorite sites sound to blind people and look to users of sites like that.  There are
still hundreds of thousands of very active web surfers who only have that type of access.


Bill Austin
http://aztec.asu.edu/
http://home.att.net/~wbaustin/famous.html



-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren Hanka [mailto:bluejay(at)starband.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:24 PM
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Designing for WebTV


Hi All -

I've recently installed the "WebTV Viewer," and am shocked at what I see --
lovely sites trashed before my very eyes! How do those of you concerned with
this issue approach designing for this "beast?" Do you try? Do you ignore
it? Do you design separate pages? If you design separate pages specifically
for the WebTV viewing public, how do you program them so that the WebTV
browser is recognized, and fed the special WebTV pages? I know I'm not
articulating myself well, but you get the picture <slysmile>.

Lauren, who is full of questions these days, and knows there's an archive,
but wants fresh, spring leaves...

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