Needs educateingRE: Message from Linux (fwd)

[Thomas Ward]

That's eesentually what it boils down to. Ease of use. Windows Eyes and Jaws
are populare because they can press a key and wam all the links appear in a
list. Then, you can press the first letter of the link, and you jump to it.
However, one of the best kept secrets of lynx is its number links option.

lynx -number_links www.website.com


When that happens all the links are asigned a number, and by entering that
number you can jump to it just as you could with Jaws or Window Eyes in
Windows with their fancy hot keys.

Editing wavs is easier under Windows, but ripping cd's is easy with the
right program.




----- Original Message -----
From: Raul A. Gallegos <raul at asmodean.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Needs educateingRE: Message from Linux (fwd)


> I agree with Kirk.  Linux is simply not for everyone.  Although I use
> Linux for 90% of my computer tasks I still use Windows for that 10%.
> That 10% mainly consists of online banking/billing because of the java.
> I do find the access that I get with Window-Eyes and Internet Explorer
> to be very nice.  As to the comments on sound editing and cd ripping I
> know it can be done in Linux but I personally am not into it so don't
> know how easy it would be.  I'm sure anything within reason can be done
> in Linux and in time everything will be easy for blind users.
>
> I personally don't mind the editing of config files, command line, etc
> but I agree that some people who have never been exposed to it will be
> hard-pressed to try it.  Also others  who may have used command line
> utilities such as dos may look at how "easy" their world has been and
> not want to go back to more typing.  Still, others may just be lazy and
> want an OS to control their computer without their say-so.  *lol*
>
> --
> We are writing this e-mail to inform you that the mail server is down.
> Please do not call the help desk for assistance.  To see the progress of
> any outage refer to your e-mail notifications.
> Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup