Clients That Make You Laugh

ishane said:
I was working in a company. At the time of sales talk client asked that which plateform he should choose linux or windows, then I asked in which language your site is developed. "English" he replied.
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lmao..That is priceless.
 
ishane said:
I was working in a company. At the time of sales talk client asked that which plateform he should choose linux or windows, then I asked in which language your site is developed. "English" he replied.
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That's cool! I haven't quite had one like that yet, although I did have a blind guy say that he wasn't able to see/read our site and if I had a website setup for the visually impared. Odd request I thought, but understandable. Unfortuantely I don't have a visually impared website configured at this time, but it got me thinking ;)
 
There's a few TEXT readers or PAGE reader programs on the web that will read the text to the visually impared. This was something that the ALT tags on images were great for (provind a description of the image), but it seems that ALT tags are going away, and IE8 doesn't even display the alt image when you hover over an image any more.

We're w3c compliant and CSS compliant on all our sites, but the extra disability ones are pretty much impossible to accomplish and still have a visually apealing site. You need to strip out all tables, div tags and many other parts so it's mainly text.
 
handsonhosting said:
There's a few TEXT readers or PAGE reader programs on the web that will read the text to the visually impared. This was something that the ALT tags on images were great for (provind a description of the image), but it seems that ALT tags are going away, and IE8 doesn't even display the alt image when you hover over an image any more.

We're w3c compliant and CSS compliant on all our sites, but the extra disability ones are pretty much impossible to accomplish and still have a visually apealing site. You need to strip out all tables, div tags and many other parts so it's mainly text.
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Conor I keep running my fingers across the screen w but I am not feeling the dots. You should really have your site looked at. I cannot see it. (for anyone who thinks I'm an ass I am legally blind myself, I don't know braille though.

For the record, the screen readers (Jaws) is not only a pain in the ass for website owners; however, they suck from the visual impaired person standpoint. Back when I was younger, they use to provide me different technology to work with to see which one would help me the most.

While I am just on the edge of legal blindness, when it came down to the end of the day when I took my contacts out, I have a $10.00 Jupiter Magnifying glass that fixes all the problems. hehe

All serious they need to bring braille to the web for blind people. :)
 
;) There was a company for a while that was working on braile printers - so the ability to print out a page in braile might be a thought (but a lot of wasted paper).

A lot of the accessability stuff really needs to be addressed on the web, I'm just glad I don't see the BLINK html tags any more! All the neon colours on a black background page used to drive me nuts! There's still a few geocities sites that are left over from the past, but for the most part BLINK is no longer used (maybe not even supported anymore - haven't checked).

JAWS is not cheap.. I remember it being in the $600+ range, maybe more - it's been a few years. I did a quick hunt on the web and it seems there's a free one available now, and a 30 day trial, but they're charging over $1000 for the PRO version.

One that I have bookmarked here on my computer is NVDA which is a free tool - www.nvda-project.org. I played with it briefly while typing back here but it seemed a little too complicated (guess that's why it's free). I couldn't get it to actually READ anything to me.

I've used a few text to voice type programs for reading documents such as PDF files or word docs, manuals and books etc - and I use programs such as Dragon Naturaly Speaking for Voice to Text, but it requires baby sitting too. The nature of the beast I guess.

Oh, and I did find a few whitepapers talking about a program for comptuers that does braille output called "britty" but any time I type "britty braille" or combinations thereof I get google saying "did you mean britney ;)
 
handsonhosting said:
;) There was a company for a while that was working on braile printers - so the ability to print out a page in braile might be a thought (but a lot of wasted paper).

A lot of the accessability stuff really needs to be addressed on the web, I'm just glad I don't see the BLINK html tags any more! All the neon colours on a black background page used to drive me nuts! There's still a few geocities sites that are left over from the past, but for the most part BLINK is no longer used (maybe not even supported anymore - haven't checked).

JAWS is not cheap.. I remember it being in the $600+ range, maybe more - it's been a few years. I did a quick hunt on the web and it seems there's a free one available now, and a 30 day trial, but they're charging over $1000 for the PRO version.

One that I have bookmarked here on my computer is NVDA which is a free tool - www.nvda-project.org. I played with it briefly while typing back here but it seemed a little too complicated (guess that's why it's free). I couldn't get it to actually READ anything to me.

I've used a few text to voice type programs for reading documents such as PDF files or word docs, manuals and books etc - and I use programs such as Dragon Naturaly Speaking for Voice to Text, but it requires baby sitting too. The nature of the beast I guess.

Oh, and I did find a few whitepapers talking about a program for comptuers that does braille output called "britty" but any time I type "britty braille" or combinations thereof I get google saying "did you mean britney ;)
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That is to funny. Jaws is a pos for all I am concerned. I feel bad for completely blind folks. I know many, its kind of a system setup to fail. Maybe, I should get out of hosting and help companies design products for the blind.
 
Oh, and I did find a few whitepapers talking about a program for comptuers that does braille output called "britty" but any time I type "britty braille" or combinations thereof I get google saying "did you mean britney
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LMAO - I love it. As long as I'm here, let's see what Britney is up too.

I don't have any experience with the visually impaired, even though I was once diagnosed as legally blind (corrected by Lasik). @Zachary - I think that's a noble career choice - I have no doubt you'll succeed whatever path you select.
 
handsonhosting said:
I think there's a real market there, but we'd hate to lose you out of hosting also :)
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I have a hard time leaving. I tried once for a month and then came back. There is to many good people in thie industry like you, Steve, Romes, etc. that make the bad days better.

LMAO - I love it. As long as I'm here, let's see what Britney is up too.

I don't have any experience with the visually impaired, even though I was once diagnosed as legally blind (corrected by Lasik). @Zachary - I think that's a noble career choice - I have no doubt you'll succeed whatever path you select.
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New porn name Britney Blind. :) She is walking around with a cane turned into a toy. I love it. Where are you my big busty. rofl Steven success is defined in many ways. In my eyes I have already achieved success because I am happy. I have a fturue in adult movies too by my creativity.
 
At a hospital as a programmer... I got a call from a M.D. asking me to "reboot the internet" - told him I couldn't, he'd have to call Al Gore for that level of support.
 
I had a client call me demanding a month credit to her account because her internet had been out for three months and asked when it would be back on.... I was so tempted to mess with her, but just explained I'm not her internet connection, I just host her website. My question is how scary is it that this lady has a website, but doesn't get the whole idea of "The Internet"
 
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