[sldev] Re: Thursday agenda

[Robin Cornelius]

SignpostMarv Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> Hi SignpostMarv,
>>
>> I see you added a few items to this week's agenda:

>>    * SL Viewer vs SLeek: accessibility for blind/partially sighted users
> Recently I've been forced to use SLeek as a means of accessing Second
> Life- if I use the LL viewer, my system freezes.
> 
> I found that the text-only interface would be hypothetically superior to
> the LL viewer in terms of accessibility to blind or partially sighted
> users.
> 

Actually I ran across this the other day :-

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_App_Cleanup#Lightweight_Client

So it must be (or has been) on someone's radar internally. Page seems to
be by Mani Linden with no edits since

I think there are a whole bunch of reasons for desiring a "light weight"
client. Accessibility is a very good one and I think it opens up some
interesting design challenges. Although SLeek can be used now with a
screen reader etc, it does not give very good scope for interaction with
the world.

Another good reason for some major re factoring of the client? if the
protocol/communications was abstracted from the 3d render engine a light
weight or heavy weight top layer could sit on the common foundations?


Robin

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