From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:42:38 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c57a784a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > Note that the trend to WYSIWYG editors and GUIs is > very disabling to the blind. At least under Unix one > has "ed" (or "ex" or "sam -d" or whatever) and full > access to a sequential text-mode command interface. My personal view is that the focus on GUI's as the default interface for OS'es has set back the technology at least 20 years. Had we not gotten sidetrackes I'm convinced computers would be doing a lot more than they are today. GUI's make real automation harder than it needs to be because the focus is on GUI support and not process execution. Just another example of the evils of the least common denominator approach. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com