Re: speakup at university

[Mike Gorse <mgorse WPI EDU>]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Let's not get into screen reader war, but be careful when we criticize any
> particular screen reader. There are a lot of advantages of using Emacspeak
> over Speakup and there are some of using Speakup over Emacspeak. I suggest,
> using both, if possible. Unfortunately, the truth is that Emacs is far the
> bbest editor found on Linux. You can do all the compilation without leaving
> Emacs. Speakup is really good for debugging and installation procedures.

You could say the same for elvis, about being able to do all your
compilation without leaving, although emacspeak probably works better with
emacs than any screen reader will work with elvis.  But different users
will prefer different editors and screen readers under Linux, and one will
be better for certain things from another.  Same with Windows screen
readers, window managers under X, etc.

Vic, to answer your question, some of my introductory classes had labs
(actually Human/Computer Interaction did too, and that wasn't an intro
class), but classes like Operating Systems and Networking didn't.  We
would have to turn in programming assignments, but we could develop them
on our own computers and/or ssh into the school's servers as easily as we
could work in a lab.  Of course, different schools may do things
differently.