Well I have to use the web for development and business so that is why I see it
as less entertainment now. With that said. I have always said the screen
readers handle the web incorrectly. They should make web apps work just like
real apps. My sighted wife doesn't see a difference between the web office
clients and the non web -office clients. We on the other hand get a total
different interface. That needs to change. It is getting better but we are
not to the point where the web works like everything else. Take the Valhalla
web client for example. We had to do a lot of extra work just to make it so
blind folks could play the mud through the web. True you can still play it
through telnet and clients but the web client should have just worked as good
for the blind as it does for sighted and if the screen readers worked better on
it then it would.
I use a lot of team clients and web storage stuff for development and the web
needs to continue to become more like real apps not less.
Ken
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Meh, the Web is still mainly entertainment as far as I'm concerned...
then again, I don't like the cloud computing paradigm at all. I like having my
applications, documents and media on a local hard drive where I can access them
whenever and can still get work done even when my Internet connection is acting
wonky.
That said, I think my introduction to the web was with Internet Explorer on
Windows 95 or 98, though I've been using Firefox since version 0.8. It's by far
the heaviest app on my computer and between it and the stuff I only have
installed because I need them to use Firefox, it accounts for like half of my
installed system's disc usage. Would love to switch to a text-only browser and
ditch the GUI altogether, but there's no truly modern text-only web browser I'm
aware of and the one's I've tried made even something as simple as checking my
Gmail(even in Firefox, I prefer the HTML version of Gmail to the JavaScript
version) a major pain. even switching to a lightweight graphical browser would
be nice, but best I can tell, all the lightweight graphical browsers achieve
their lightweight through lacking features that are hard to do without in this
era where apparently no one knows how to format a page or create a web form
with plain, old HTML... not to mention that Firefox and chromium are probably
the only Browsers that have been thoroughly tested with Orca.
It really is enough to make one wish they had the programming know how and
dedication to write their own browser or fork and build upon an existing one.
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