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  • How accessible is Gopher?

    From Accessibility Test@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 28 03:41:27 2019
    Can anyone provide feedback on how accessible is Gopher using a screen reader? Any quirks worth knowing about?

    Thanks.

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  • From Grant Hedson@21:1/5 to Accessibility Test on Mon Apr 29 04:13:31 2019
    Accessibility Test wrote:
    Can anyone provide feedback on how accessible is Gopher using a screen reader?
    Any quirks worth knowing about?

    Thanks.

    I'm not sure how accessible gopher is by design, but gopher sites
    mostly deal in text, which should be easy on a screen reader. I can't
    comment too much beyond, that, however, because I don't know how
    much a screen reader depends on the underlying protocol (for example
    if it is geared towards HTTP for browsers, or if it really does just
    read text on a screen. If the latter, I think things should mostly
    be fine unless a file download is involved.)

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  • From Persona Persona@21:1/5 to rafael.minuesa@gmail.com on Mon Apr 29 20:02:24 2019
    On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:41:27 -0700 (PDT), Accessibility Test <rafael.minuesa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Can anyone provide feedback on how accessible is Gopher using a screen reader? >Any quirks worth knowing about?

    Thanks.

    If I am not mistaken, there is only one Gopher-specific thing - the
    Gopher menus. The other type of content (text files, binaries) you can
    get through HTTP as well. (eg. using Lynx.) So I guess if a Gopher
    menu ("gophermap") is easy to understand if you read it aloud, it
    should be okay... I believe that huge ASCII multi-line banners can be
    very annoying if read it characer by character.

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  • From FlipChip(tm)@21:1/5 to Accessibility Test on Tue Apr 30 22:01:54 2019
    On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:41:27 -0700, Accessibility Test wrote:

    Can anyone provide feedback on how accessible is Gopher using a screen reader?
    Any quirks worth knowing about?

    Thanks.

    I see no reason why screen readers wouldn't work. Don't have experience
    with them though. I think gopherholes are even more accessible than
    webpages since there isn't anything but the content, which is always good.

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  • From lkosov@21:1/5 to Grant Hedson on Wed May 1 00:56:34 2019
    On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Grant Hedson wrote:

    I'm not sure how accessible gopher is by design, but gopher sites
    mostly deal in text, which should be easy on a screen reader. I can't
    comment too much beyond, that, however, because I don't know how
    much a screen reader depends on the underlying protocol (for example
    if it is geared towards HTTP for browsers, or if it really does just
    read text on a screen. If the latter, I think things should mostly
    be fine unless a file download is involved.)

    When I did some web-design work, more than ten years ago now, the standard
    for determining if a page/site would work well in a screen reader was to
    view it in Lynx.

    As another poster said, ASCII art is bad, and anything involving columns
    is probably bad, but otherwise Gopher ought to be quite accessible for the visually-impaired.

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  • From lkosov@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 2 20:27:28 2019
    Saw this today, and was reminded of this thread:

    gopher://gopher.black:70/1/phlog/20190502-asmr

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  • From Pinku Basudei@21:1/5 to lkosov on Sun May 5 06:17:03 2019
    On Thu, 2 May 2019 20:27:28 +0000
    lkosov <lkosov@somewhere.in.gopherspace> wrote:

    Saw this today, and was reminded of this thread:

    gopher://gopher.black:70/1/phlog/20190502-asmr


    I think a "LOL!" is required here :)
    (How does screen readers deal with ASCII smileys btw?)

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    / Pinku

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