speakup is nice

[Glenn Ervin]

Hi Terry,
    I started with DOS, and hated Windows, because it was so inaccessible 
for so long.
Then I started into Linux with SpeakUp, and found it to work well, but it 
involves a lot of typing.
Nothing wrong with typing, as I can type about 45 words per minute.
Now, along with windows, I use Ubuntu, with Orca, and although I use the 
terminal a good deal of the time, I prefer the GUI.
It has nothing to do with sight.  People seem to think that the GUI  is a 
sighted thing.  Actually, it is easier for us too, as we can do much with 
less typing.

The only thing I have against SpeakUp is the weird keyboard navigation keys. 
I think that the mapping that JFW uses is much more intuitive.

But I have to say that Speakup is otherwise a great product for us to have.

Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry.cudney at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: speakup is nice


Hi all,

   We usually don't say anything, unless we have a problem.

   That's probably why we don't often say anything about speakup... It just 
works!

   So, yes, thanks to Kirk and all the others who have worked to make 
speakup what it is.

   Why do we want access to the gui? Only because the majority of the 
computer users in the world are sighted and they like to point-and-click. If 
we had a java/javascript-enabled browser that worked in the cli with 
speakup, I don't think we'd be looking at orca or other gui access schemes 
at all.

   Speakup lets us do everything we need to do in the command line 
environment! thanks again, Kirk et al.

   --terry

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