From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <146a1427-22a0-48ed-85ab-fe7d13bef318@b21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> From: Gorka Guardiola Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <146a1427-22a0-48ed-85ab-fe7d13bef318@b21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:54:23 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8F190) Subject: Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it Topicbox-Message-UUID: eff5b6f2-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, "antonio.fin@gmail.com" = =20 >>=20 >=20 > For blind people the mouse is useless. >=20 > An the computers world have opened a new world of opportunities for > the blind. Before this era, they had to use heavy machines to write, > and big, heavy and expensive books to read or study. Today they only > need a voice synthesizer software, a braille display, and a laptop. > They used keyboard-shortcuts to move because they don=C2=B4t have another > way to speak with computer. >=20 To people who cannot move, a keyboard is useless. What is your point exactly?. You have a braille line driver and a braille enabled version of acme with special shortcuts that the mouse c= onspiracy is preventing you from distributing? G.