Re: [orca-list] Our list will be moving to Discourse

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

But my personal preference is not my point here. It is fine with me if 
you don't like Facebook. My point, and again I can't claim any 
scientific evidence for this, is that blind people, in general,  prefer 
email to web interfaces. This is basedon my experience as a volunteer 
for several organizations for the blind. And it makes sense. A web 
interface probably isn't going to be as efficient for a

blind user as email. If you use a email client that works well with your 
screen reader, the emails themselves are almost always accessible. Most 
likely, you can do everything with shortcut keys. With a web interface, 
that depends on the way each web page is coded. It is unlikely that you 
can do everything with shortcut keys and even if you cant, you are 
probably going to have to take time to learn them. The shortcut key to 
respond to a message won't be the same from one web interface to another.


On 9/14/22 15:17, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'm not on Facebook, but that has nothing to do
> with accessibility and stems from a general aversion to the
> monolithic, megasocial sites that predates my blindness, and I'm
> pretty sure I'd still be without a Facebook account in an alternate
> timeline where I never went blind.
>
> Also, I'm on fewer forums now than I was back when I had a working
> eye, but again, I wouldn't blame it on a lack of accessibility. It's
> just that most of the forums that existed back in the late 90s and
> throughout the 00s have long since died out, and nowadays, community
> starters are more likely to create a Facebook Group or Discord server
> than setup a traditional web forum. Forums remain my preferred format
> for online communities, its just that as time goes on, it becomes
> harder to find new ones I want to join and more of the ones I'm
> already on either lose my interest, become inactive or go offline
> entirely.
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