Gena, Thanks for this. I agree totally. ----- Original Message ----- From: "'Georgina'" <gena@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Re: xwindows Hi Sorry, but I mus disagree. You only have to listen to reviews on Main Menu and here the number of keystrokes required to achieve a simple task. Its a question of what you know and what you believe you know to be fact. If you count the number of keystrokes you actually use in MS Windows you'd be suprised. When you become comfortable with a screen reader and the operating system you believe it to be easy. Its a matter of perception. I read new mail with fewer keystrokes with nmh than I did with Outlook. My fingers stay on the typewriter keys and I don't have to use nearly impossible key combinations. In Outlook I pressed escape, curser down, and enter. In nmh I use curser down and enter. Big deal, I've saved one keypress per message but as I receive over a hundred a day, its a significant amount. The arguement that blind people need a graphical user interface is totally illogical. The only reasoning is to normalise us all. Gena Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org >I agree with this. It takes far less typing and its generally just quicker >to get around and accomplish many typical tasks with a GUI or object-based >interface. I've got repetative strain injury from typing too much and >playing guitar, so anything which saves typing is really necisary for me. >Linux is a much better system overall, so to have access to a GUI or >object-based interface under Linux is going to be fantastique!! Look for >more about Gnome and Gnome accessibility as the summer progresses. You can >bet that I'll be one of the first to jump on this bandwaggon!! > > Rich Caloggero > MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info. and Computing > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jim Ruby" <jruby at charter.net> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:12 PM >Subject: xwindows > > >> Do you think we will ever have access to the gui? >> >> I find that I can access things faster in windows then in Linux text mode. >I will admit that linux works much better then windows or the winxp. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >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
