About three weeks ago, I ordered a bunch of new DVDs and CDs to update my Linux collection. If I am going to blog about Linux, it helps to blog about current versions and not those that are over six months old. Part of that order included Knoppix 6.0. When I booted the live CD, it booted to ADRIANE. I had no idea what was happening, and I had never heard of ADRIANE. I just wanted to look at how Knoppix implemented LXDE as desktop. Listening to the voice feedback, while checking out the LXDE desktop was very disconcerting.
Last week, Verizon was havisng a problem with their cell tower on Red Lodge mountain, and I didn’t have an Internet connection for a day. Since the weather was not exactly warm, I couldn’t work outside. So, I read a book on CSS. The author kept mentioning the need to style for the visually impaired. I realized that I hadn’t really written my style sheets to conform to these guidelines.
This lead to reading the guidelines, and making the decision to change the sytle sheet I wrote for mtlegion.org. Of course, I need to blog about it, as I learn more, so that others become aware of the needs of the blind and visually impaired. It also brought back memories of a blind programmer, who worked for me in the 1970’s. He was my best programmer, my best keypunch operator, and a great friend. He tried to teach me braille and how to use a braille output device, but my fingers weren’t sensitive to the little bumps. Forgot to mention, he was a great cook.
