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Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription



Excerpts from Lisi's message of 2011-06-11 12:43:23 +0200:
> On Saturday 11 June 2011 11:07:36 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 10:05:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > I've good luck, because I can skip a lot when watching at the monitor,
> > > > I guess using braille, people have to read much more irrelevant stuff.
> > >
> > > I'm fascinated.  How do you read braille from a monitor??!
> >
> > I've got good eyes and don't have braille ;). But I'm a dyslexic.
> 
> You misunderstood my question.  "You" in English, in addition to being the 
> second person plural and singular pronoun, is also the third person singular 
> indefinate pronoun equivalent to the French "on".  You (second person 
> singular) said  "I guess using braille, people have to read much more 
> irrelevant stuff" and I asked how on earth these putative people, using 
> braille to read things on the Internet, did so.  I cannot see how anyone uses 
> braille on the Internet, so I asked you (second person singular) how such a 
> person would do so.

Reading web pages with a braille display is a matter of using a text
browser, there are a number of those available on Linux.

Regards,
Philipp


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