hello Travis To a point, I see where you're coming from. But to be absolutely fair, there are actually now many Windows applications which do not use the old style of interface. I have been doing a lot of reading since my initial post, as I'm staying home a lot at the moment for personal reasons which i won't go into here.
But getting back to the point. I think I jumped the gun a little with my initial post. I was a bit shocked by the interface, that is true. But I haven't used Windows much over the last couple of years and I clearly hadn't appreciated just how much things have changed. Change is necessary, if we want to avoid stagnation. So to be fair, Dane is quite right when he says that people need to move with the times if they want to get the most out of their system. And as I said, it seems that the old way of doing things is now disappearing just as the interface of Windows itself is now radically different. For instance the old menu bar is gone; replaced by a tree view type of interface which contains all of your options and functions in a multi-screen environment. Visually the same is true of Tune-Up Utilities 2012 and it just took me by surprise because I had kind of expected the old style to be present when a screen-reader is loaded. So actually, in all fairness, the fault was mine in a way because I did not anticipate the change. I am still struggling with this thing from an accessibility perspective and, since I don't have any other help at the moment, because nobody is able, it seems, to assist me with the keyboard layout of the screen-reader, I'm going to have to wait until Gordon is up to showing mere how it works. I'm sure he will be able to figure it out. My problem is that I simply don't understand the screen-reader in this configuration. We are using a NetBook; and the keyboard layout of the screen-reader seems to need changing from the default; but I don't know how to do it. The last time I asked accessibility questions regarding software here I got my proverbial head bitten off. So I will wait. But to get back to the original point you raised, change is coming to Windows whether people like it or not; and we just have to accept it. Windows 7, for instance, is nothing like Windows XP in appearance. Lynne On 2 Nov 2011, at 02:16, Travis Siegel wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that most windows software does use tab and arrow keys to access things, so when one doesn't, it feels broken to folks who are used to the tab/arrow approach. Much like apple tries to enforce certain standards for developers working on osx, because folks get used to the way things are supposed to work, and when they don't work that way, it causes confusion. Many developers have run into this when they neglected the apple way of doing things, and went their own way. I recall one particular instance, where the developer did such a horrible job, nobody bought the software,. I have no idea what happened after that, if he fixed it or not, but when folks were asked why they didn't use the software, the overwhelming response was that it didn't work like a mac app should. Folks get used to things, and if you're going to do things differently, it really should be for some reason other than I felt like it. :) ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/techno-chat@techno-chat.net> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/techno-chat@techno-chat.net/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
