From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:05:08 +0000 From: "antonio.fin@gmail.com" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0b9029c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jun 16, 2:57=A0pm, pau...@gmail.com (Gorka Guardiola) wrote: > On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, "antonio....@gmail.com" > > > > > For blind people the mouse is useless. > > 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 mou= se conspiracy is preventing you from distributing? > > G. I have been working in a visually impaired school and I told to the list what I saw. For me is easier to use the mouse than the keyboard-shortcuts, but for blind people mouse is useless and they are heavy users of computers, it is not the same as your example. How can you open a new terminal in rio without mouse? Also, in Plan9 everything is text, this could help to easily translate this text to braille display or to a voice synthesizer software. They don't need 3D effects, icons or complicated windows manager, only a simple way to move in rio without mouse, and a way to get the computer output in their braille display or voice synthesizer. Plan9 as research system could also work in this area, in a homogeneous way than others big and crufty systems. Antonio