well I have always learned what i call mouse to keyboard translation.
I know left click is same is arrowing to highlight the item.
double is enter on it right click is the app key.
Learning what things are layout is important also the menus.
If someone tells me click on this icon in the corner of the screen
with a blue envelope then I can't really know that.
If they tell me the name, or simular visual refference then I know
what I need to do to get to what they mean though I tell them that it
may take a couple seconds to get there.
One thing with windows is the fact stand controls have shortcuts and
stuff so you may tell me to click this and that and fill in this
stuff and hit that button however as long as its standard controls
and labeled, it may take me time but I am translating it to blind or
keyboard procedures to the point where I tell even blind people to
click and point to this and that.
If they don't know I tell them my translation key.
You do need to know standard controls and keyboard layout of a semi
modern board though.
At 12:03 a.m. 30/04/2011, you wrote:
Interestingly enough this came up recently.
my mum asked someone she knows a computer related question of how to
setup an E-mail account, on the basis that this person always uses
her pc for chatting on msn and buying stuff online so she should know.
the friend knew nothing because all she knew how to do was open
something by point and click and type in the boxes.
While I was a litle too young to get into command line options,
after it was proved to me that computers could do more than just
word process and could be fun, I actually started trying stuff out
just to see what certain items and such did, as well as trying Hal commands.
while I'd not claime to be a wizard at these things, i do at least
know enough to for instance try a couple of things if something goes
wrong and be able to fix basic problems now and again, ---- such as
the other day when my laptop decided to mute itself.
This however does not seem to be the norm at all, people don't
evenseem to know what certin things are called or where they are and
the same goes for training.
It really bothers me that when my mum was taught it skills, she was
taught just to open ms word.
She actually didn't even know what a folder was and that my
documents was a folder in windows, rather she thought she could only
get there by using word.
This got even worse when she wanted to start using a digital camera
and storing pictures on her hard drive sinse she had no idea about
basic file moving skills at all as all she'd been taught to do was
open word, ---- none of actually what was going on undernieth.
On one ocasion on the phone to bt who provide my internet, when
trying to fix connection problems, they were telling me to click on
a certain icon.
i asked if they meant network connections, and they didn't know,
sinse they didn't know what the icon was called only what it did,
much less that there are other ways to getting to that particular
page of settings than clicking the desktop icon.
A shame really, especially when things go wrong.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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