interacting with the cursor:

[david poehlman]

Janina,

If I hear you correctly, if you came upon a platform which bbehaved as I 
describe with no aility to adjust it, you'd say that that would be fine? 
I'm not actually trying to force a standard but would entertain notions of 
best practice in this area.  I remember during the early dos days, artic and 
vert if I remember rightly were shunned partly because they were confusing 
in how they implemented this.  Of course, there were other complaints as 
well and they were the screen readers that were available at the time.  The 
cry among users I remember at the time was that editing was difficult for 
this reason though.

Would you say that a best practice would be to be able to interact with the 
character you hear when you move from character to character?  I know I'm 
getting at this the rong way round, but if you had to compare the two 
methods of interaction, which would be less error prone, which would be more 
desirable?  Which would be preferable?...

Janina,

The why I am refering to is why would one want one over another articularly, 
why would one want to have a more error prone implementation over one which 
is less error prone?

-- Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: interacting with the cursor:


You may as profitably ask why some people like rice, while others hate
it.
I've been trying to tell you why, but you don't seem to like my answer.
I can only surmise it's my unwillingness to provide a categorical
answer. But, we don't need one. I don't believe we need a standard in
this space, certainly not a prescriptive standard.


david poehlman writes:
> I have a mouse in my pocket.  Nice how to, ut I want the why.
>
> -- 
> Johnnie Apple Seed
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: interacting with the cursor:
>
>
> david poehlman writes:
> > we're not trying to do anything in particular, we are seeking 
> > information
> > for research purposes.  Who knows, It may actually be published some 
> > day.
> It's been published. You may want to read up on it:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html
>
> Besides, who is "we?"
>
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