Janina, If I hear you correctly, if you came upon a platform which bbehaved as I describe with no aility to adjust it, you'd say that that would be fine? I'm not actually trying to force a standard but would entertain notions of best practice in this area. I remember during the early dos days, artic and vert if I remember rightly were shunned partly because they were confusing in how they implemented this. Of course, there were other complaints as well and they were the screen readers that were available at the time. The cry among users I remember at the time was that editing was difficult for this reason though. Would you say that a best practice would be to be able to interact with the character you hear when you move from character to character? I know I'm getting at this the rong way round, but if you had to compare the two methods of interaction, which would be less error prone, which would be more desirable? Which would be preferable?... Janina, The why I am refering to is why would one want one over another articularly, why would one want to have a more error prone implementation over one which is less error prone? -- Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:31 AM Subject: Re: interacting with the cursor: You may as profitably ask why some people like rice, while others hate it. I've been trying to tell you why, but you don't seem to like my answer. I can only surmise it's my unwillingness to provide a categorical answer. But, we don't need one. I don't believe we need a standard in this space, certainly not a prescriptive standard. david poehlman writes: > I have a mouse in my pocket. Nice how to, ut I want the why. > > -- > Johnnie Apple Seed > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: interacting with the cursor: > > > david poehlman writes: > > we're not trying to do anything in particular, we are seeking > > information > > for research purposes. Who knows, It may actually be published some > > day. > It's been published. You may want to read up on it: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html > > Besides, who is "we?" > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list