Hi Janina, This is besides the point because I'm guessing that Igore is already used to qerty, but I believe those tests were disputed because they were done with individuals who already knew qwerty? If one starts out using vorak ... I don't know: I mean: qwerty was developed to be inefficient in the first place. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:32 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: dvorak Just curious as to why you think it's useful to learn Dvorak? Are you aware the U.S. Navy did extensive typing tests between qwerty and dvorak and found almost nodifference in speed and eficiency? Igor Gueths writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hi all. I was briefly playing with the Dvorak layout, and find that > I'm going to see if I can't learn it. I take it I would have to somewhat modify the sort of table of keycodes to Speakup commands which I believe is contained in speakup.c? Its been a while since I've looked. > - -- > How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? > - -- Alan Cox > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCVGH0Nohoaf1zXJMRAw5vAKCKV1Nb+D88MvX0c5w3Z776pl6HCgCfYPQi > Sb3Oaqql0wgsnxa+PiIPRvU= > =JghD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup