From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 01:15:42 -0400
From: Felix Lee flee@modula.cse.psu.edu
Subject: keyboard accelerators
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> > keyboard accelerators are indicative of a broken user interface.
> sure is nice to get such compact bits of wisdom and enlightenment
> in my mailbox once in a while. i will meditate immediately.

om mani padme hum.  the premise is that mice are better than
keyboards.  the evidence is time-motion studies.  therefore, if an
interface requires keyboard accelerators, then the mouse interface is
flawed.

well almost.  but anyway, it's useful to aggressively push this
viewpoint, because mice really are poorly utilized when people layer
them onto a traditional keyboard interface.  even when the interface
is built from scratch, people often ignore usability issues in favor
of the eye-candy school of design.

(well almost.  eye-candy is often useful.)
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