dvorak

[Janina Sajka]

Well, it's probably quite OT, but I don't see how using experienced
typists discredits anything. I should think it's the other way around.

Sina Bahram writes:
> Hi Janina,
> 
> This is besides the point because I'm guessing that Igore is already used to
> qerty, but I believe those tests were disputed because they were done with
> individuals who already knew qwerty?
> 
> If one starts out using vorak ... I don't know: I mean: qwerty was developed
> to be inefficient in the first place.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:32 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: dvorak
> 
> Just curious as to why you think it's useful to learn Dvorak? Are you aware
> the U.S. Navy did extensive typing tests between qwerty and dvorak and found
> almost nodifference in speed and eficiency?
> 
> Igor Gueths writes:
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> > Hi all. I was briefly playing with the Dvorak layout, and find that 
> > I'm going to see if I can't learn it. I take it I would have to somewhat
> modify the sort of table of keycodes to Speakup commands which I believe is
> contained in speakup.c? Its been a while since I've looked.
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> > How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks?
> > - -- Alan Cox
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.