Alex, Do not confuse the OS with the user interface. In fact the text mode user interfaces are a lot more diverse than are the various GUI's, most of which mimic the original Xerox PARC "Star", the Macintosh Lisa, and the Mac OS. Recommending a GUI for the blind is like recommending glasses for them. A GUI requires eye-hand coordination to use it effectively. A text mode interface does not. But uniformity is irrelevant, IMHO. Chuck On Wed, 1 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > I understand that because textmode os's are more uniform in nature. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:57 PM > Subject: Re: I swear to tell the truth, > > > > Okay, okay just one more and I might shut up..... > > Blind people need a GUI. Isn't that the real msg? Why doesn't he give > them > > the real story? Text mode os's are accessable to a degree that a GUI will > > never be by their very nature. > > > > Cecil, stater of the obvious. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Gibbous (68% of Full)
