From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gse-mta-12.emailfiltering.com ([62.249.212.173]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HPclF-000400-00 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:55:45 -0500 Received: from mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk ([212.219.113.195]) by gse-mta-12.emailfiltering.com with emfmta (version 3.3.0.3203.0.rd-3.2.2-libc2.3.1) vanilla id 45060208 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:55:14 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.157] ([192.168.0.157]) by mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:54:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide From: Chris Norman To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20070308153859.GA17388@gmx.net> References: <20070308033547.GA15248@gmx.net> <20070308153859.GA17388@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:55:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1173437711.4878.4.camel@sparky> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2007 10:54:17.0262 (UTC) FILETIME=[48840CE0:01C76239] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:55:46 -0000 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" > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > 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?! > > >> Experimente j? e veja as novidades. > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems