I swear to tell the truth,

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Alex,

Do not confuse the OS with the user interface. In fact the text
mode user interfaces are a lot more diverse than are the various
GUI's, most of which mimic the original Xerox PARC "Star", the
Macintosh Lisa, and the Mac OS.

Recommending a GUI for the blind is like recommending glasses for
them. A GUI requires eye-hand coordination to use it effectively.
A text mode interface does not.

But uniformity is irrelevant, IMHO.

Chuck


On Wed, 1 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:

> I understand that because textmode os's are more uniform in nature.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: I swear to tell the truth,
>
>
> > Okay, okay just one more and I might shut up.....
> > Blind people need a GUI.  Isn't that the real msg?  Why doesn't he give
> them
> > the real story?  Text mode os's are accessable to a degree that a GUI will
> > never be by their very nature.
> >
> > Cecil, stater of the obvious.
> >
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