around the world, it's hard to tell, but I would imagine there's a lot of data entry that goes on.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh de Lioncourt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:22 AM Subject: Re: new apple macbook and macbook pro keyboards: j I'm slightly disappointed about this, but speaking realistic, how many people actually use the numeric overlay? Even among the VI users? Probably a very small percentage. Still, it's puzzling why they'd remove it at all. I do have a wireless numeric keypad I picked up for $5, so I'm covered, and think that that is pretty viable for the very few who use it. Josh de Lioncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...my other mail provider is an owl... On 27 Feb, 2008, at 7:26 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > We saw the disintroduction of the vnumpad with a recent edition of > macbook > and now we are seeing it across the line as expected. This is > dismaying for > accessibility reasons. I bought one of the new wireless keyboards > for My > pros to help alleviate this but it's sad that we have to sacrifice > portability in order to gain functionality which should be universal. > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > With His > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > Reducing Technologies disabilities > one byte at a time > >
