As far as change. You have to have it or stuff don't get done. People
get lazy doing the same old stuff, and when something comes out that
makes something better to use or at least lets us use it in a normal
fashion. Progress moves even faster. We use to have to wait until the
first or second upgrade to a op before we got to have speech on it.
The main reason it took a long time to get out of text is mainly the
cost of computers and speech was not all that good.
Once more sighted people started buying computers the blind had it
made, because that forced a push to make them useful. Now a big
portion of the blind community has computers. More talk back and
forth and no one has to wait for letters that never come or are out
of date when gotten.
I remember when apple came out with the first talking computer. It
was so basic, but didn't do a thing for the blind as much as it does
now. If I had the computers I have had in the past when I was going
to school. I might of not had as much time doing that work and
learned even more. My girlfriend's niece is only 7 in third grade.
That kid gets computer homework every night. By the time she hits
high school. She will be able to run it without having to pay anyone
to fix problems with it. computers have bridged the learning curve
for schools that if the kids would just learn it instead of waste it.
We might be doing the Buck Rogers thing buy now.
You find more things going forward then staying in the past and
becoming outdated and useless! Just think about 8tracks. They came
and gone like dust and about as useless. The same routine just gets
borring, daul and mindless. If never progressed then nothing else
gets made to work with those that are disabled.
The last example is windows and our games. No win95, no VB6 and all
those games you like to play. Don't say text based was good. No one
wanted to write commands for everything on the computer. i knew a
secratary that used a computer every day at work. When I came up with
my talking computer using the command line. She didn't even know how
to do that. She was a spoon fed macro sighted world. I passed her
college learned computer tasks in about 1 munth thanks to my talking
computer and windows.
I will move right along with these computers, because each move is
more i can do!
At 05:58 AM 12/12/2011, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, you know allot of people just do not like change. Routine is
comfortable. And learning a new way of doing things may not be easy
for some. And then there is that often our access is behind. That
is our screen reader of choice may not support the newest version of
an operating system as it comes out. And then I don't think that
the graphical user interface is as intuitive for us as it is for
sighted folks. So when it totally changes it may be harder for us
to get a grip on what is going on with it. Heck it took allot of
blind people a very long time to move on from the text based command
line to the graphical user interface.
BFN
Jim
A long time ago I changed my name from Ron Moore.
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http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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