Well, personally, I don't think the examples you site are the same
thing. In the case of the menu key, it is just a change in easily
accessible keys on the keyboard. The best argument so far was the
hardware method. But to make another analogy, there is only one
keystroke to copy, cut, or paste text. VO could have equivalents for
those too, but it would be redundent. Same idea with the menu
key. VO+M and Control+F2 are identical. Having to navigate menus or
trays is not the same as a shortcut key.
At 11:24 AM 7/12/2006, you wrote:
There's always a need for multiple ways of doing things. I.E. why
have a command-o key to open a file if you can click on it?
Why would we want a vo-K for keyboard training mode when you can go
to universal preferences and activate it?
Why would we want a command-F5 to turn on/off vo when we can do the
same thing via menus?
Hmm.
Sounds to me like different folks like different access methods.
I could make exactly the same claim for jaws. Why does jaws have a
keystroke to speak the time, when I can go into the system tray and
look at my clock?
Why does jaws have an unload keystroke of it's own when i can just
use alt-f4 to close it?
It' called choice. People love choices.
The more ways there are to do things, the better in my opinion. I
don't choose to use the command-o to open programs, but a lot of
eople do. This doesn't make me right and them wrong, it simply makes
it easier since folks can choose what works best for them.
No, I think apple has done just fine with their overlap as you call it.
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