I think it would be the decent thing to do to make it easier for the impaired to chat on Undernet, and as isomer said, it's being worked on atm
- wensu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Foster Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2003 1:13 PM To: Isomer Cc: stoney`; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Fwd: [Cservice] accessability enquiry This also crossed my mind but we're talking Windows users here. There arent many decent command line apps for Windows nowadays. ircII/epic etc is a linux app and yes, would probably be far better - but thems the breaks... I feel for the dude, a good friend of mine is fully blind and always had fun trying to navigate windows apps on his PC... On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Isomer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The user mentioned that he knew other blind people who this is affecting. > > Is there any way to "fix" the problem? > > I don't give a rats a** about MS chat, but if it's stopping innocent, > > handicapped, people from continuing to chat on Undernet, it would be a > > noble endeavor to fix MS chat's compatibility issues with IRCd. Can we > > (Undernet, coder-com, humanity) help these blind people so they can > > communicate via Undernet? > > I suspect MS Chat doesn't parse PART messages properly. We'll probably > fix this in the next release. I suspect for people with impaired > eyesight that epic/ircii or other command line IRC client might be a > better choice than MS Chat, they are completely controlable via the > keyboard and could be scripted to be more intelligable via a speach > reader. > > - -- > Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Only when you are sure they have you, can you stop being paranoid > > iD8DBQE+hi3DcAgRpy8z8UQRAssOAKCZ2XBwUtt9eh+KyKhsdMECVSFTmACgtqBc > Qf5wMRtv6Nl3MOuZXcqfmsU= > =rwbO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
