From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rhombus.bright.net ([205.212.123.75]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16T3DG-0000ec-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:51:54 -0500 Received: from tward (woos-max1-cs-1.dial.bright.net [209.143.18.20]) by rhombus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g0MFpr1E000834 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:51:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002a01c1a35c$d2f86f20$0100a8c0@tward> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <20020122153308.GB29522@asmodean.net> Subject: Re: Needs educateingRE: Message from Linux (fwd) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:52:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: That's eesentually what it boils down to. Ease of use. Windows Eyes and Jaws are populare because they can press a key and wam all the links appear in a list. Then, you can press the first letter of the link, and you jump to it. However, one of the best kept secrets of lynx is its number links option. lynx -number_links www.website.com When that happens all the links are asigned a number, and by entering that number you can jump to it just as you could with Jaws or Window Eyes in Windows with their fancy hot keys. Editing wavs is easier under Windows, but ripping cd's is easy with the right program. ----- Original Message ----- From: Raul A. Gallegos To: Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Re: Needs educateingRE: Message from Linux (fwd) > I agree with Kirk. Linux is simply not for everyone. Although I use > Linux for 90% of my computer tasks I still use Windows for that 10%. > That 10% mainly consists of online banking/billing because of the java. > I do find the access that I get with Window-Eyes and Internet Explorer > to be very nice. As to the comments on sound editing and cd ripping I > know it can be done in Linux but I personally am not into it so don't > know how easy it would be. I'm sure anything within reason can be done > in Linux and in time everything will be easy for blind users. > > I personally don't mind the editing of config files, command line, etc > but I agree that some people who have never been exposed to it will be > hard-pressed to try it. Also others who may have used command line > utilities such as dos may look at how "easy" their world has been and > not want to go back to more typing. Still, others may just be lazy and > want an OS to control their computer without their say-so. *lol* > > -- > We are writing this e-mail to inform you that the mail server is down. > Please do not call the help desk for assistance. To see the progress of > any outage refer to your e-mail notifications. > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup