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From: Chris Norman <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:55:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173437711.4878.4.camel@sparky> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070308153859.GA17388@gmx.net>

In my opinion (and it is by no means an informed one), it is accessible.

I haven't touched windows for about 6 months now, and haven't missed it
at all.

I am using Ubuntu 6.10 (after feisty made my computer die), and I can
mount any windows share I like to it - not a problem.

HTH.

Chris Norman.

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:38 -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> I'm still using windows (2000 mainly) for anything I need a gui for, 
> though that is likely to change in the near future with the 
> accessibility features in gnome becoming more and more usable...I am 
> currently building gnome 2.17 to evaluate what's available...I would 
> drop windows in a heartbeat when the unix GUI becomes accessible...
> On 
> Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:04:41PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am curious, admittedly, what you use for graphical environments?  Is it 
> > Orca?  Gnome?  Something else?
> > Thanks,
> > Zack.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide
> > 
> > 
> > >A graphical environment does have its advantages...I find the console
> > > web browsers inadiquit for lots of things (full javascript support,
> > > flash, adn java applets come to mind), and certain file management
> > > tasks are far easier in a guy then cli, such as copying files from a
> > > directory to somewhere else, where the multiple files to be copied are
> > > not contiguous.
> > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:43:05PM -0300, Cleverson
> > > wrote:
> > >> Hi Zack,
> > >>
> > >> In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer
> > >> command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think 
> > >> there
> > >> is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster 
> > >> and I
> > >> think there are console programs for any task.
> > >>
> > >> For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you 
> > >> should
> > >> memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to 
> > >> me
> > >> at least...
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Cleverson
> > >>
> > >> "Be realistic; ask for the impossible."
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________________
> > >> Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?!
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> > >> http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Speakup mailing list
> > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than
> > > first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then
> > > I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts')
> > > -- Olaf Kirch
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Cleverson
 ` Zachary Kline
   ` Cleverson
     ` Alex Snow
       ` Zachary Kline
     [not found]         ` <1173348350.2904.250.camel@layla>
           ` Michael Whapples
         ` Alex Snow
           ` Chris Norman [this message]
       ` Doug Smith
         ` Luke Yelavich
     ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
       ` Zachary Kline

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