anti-word

[Amanda Lee]

They'd rather you:

"don't ask/don't tell!"

they simply do not care.  A pc is a tool to the masses and nothing more and
they don't want to be troubled with the minutia of technical information.
They want to push a button and see their results.

I'd personally like to do the same thing if I knew that my outcome is the
same but it doesn't work that way when we aren't able to use our
technologies to track in the same
manner as able-sighted persons.  I have received more than one form
developed in Word and it is the most hosed up piece o'junk! I've never
received a Word Form which I can reliably fillout and, unless I used a
Braille display, there was no way to determine where the data was being
entered.


I do not subscribe to the notion that just because a person who is blind can
marginally interact with an application in Windows, that he or she must do
so to conform with what those who are clueless about how we function in the
first place.   If you can perform a task in Linux or  DOS more effectively,
provided the outcome is the same, why spend more time doing it in Windows
merely for the sake of conformity.  Performance is key not conformity
because in this day and age, we are expected to accomplish more in less
time.

Amanda Lee




----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: anti-word


> And how do you expect them to know about the other platforms if all they
know about their windows computer is how to turn it on and off?
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:17:03PM -0500, Charles Crawford wrote:
> > Hello Amanda, Janina and other interested listers,
> >
> >          Well, looks like the world of advocacy is impinging on planet
> > Linux.  It is correct to point out that in the ideal there should not be
a
> > word processing standard imposed by a company, but as we all know, the
> > sender of a word file getting a text file back might not see the world
in
> > the same way.  Don't you just hate it when that happens.  Smile.
> >
> >          I guess my view is that if word users want to communicate with
> > those who don't use word, then they have to adjust to the realities of
> > other computer platforms.  Consumer choice still has it's place!
> >
> > -- Charlie Crawford.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 11:09 AM 01/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Amen! to that Janina!
> > >
> > >Amanda
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > >Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:06 AM
> > >Subject: Re: anti-word
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yes and if a word document is sent to you for your input and
editing,
> > >I'm
> > > > > sure the original party would expect the thing to come back in
Word
> > >format
> > > > > along with the built-in formatting, styles and such.  Some of this
whole
> > > > > anti Word sounds arogant to me.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I rather think it arrogant to presume everyone wants and reads Word.
I
> > > > regard it as arrogant to presume we all pay tribute to Microsoft. I
> > > > further regard it arrogant to treat a proprietary, non-consensus,
file
> > > > format as some kind of standard.
> > > >
> > > >
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