From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:18:12 +0000 From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <39A135A0.E9F46586@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39A0CD77.9FF3877A@interport.net>, <20000821112708.C290@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] Remote access Topicbox-Message-UUID: fe336f06-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Lucio De Re wrote: > drawterm again obviates this drawback quite successfully. I urge that people keep in mind the fact that some computer users are blind and *need* a text-oriented user interface instead of a graphical user interface. That doesn't mean dragging everyone down to a common denominator, but it does mean not *unnecessarily* forcing graphics upon an application. Quite a few apps can be designed as two processes: a GUI controller and a text-driven computational engine. There are other reasons for preferring such a design, but it's also a very good compromise between the needs of the blind and the desired of the sighted. Thanks for listening.