On 4/1/2011, at 5:22pm, ZULU wrote:
> ...
> The GUI is fine...I can scroll it up huge when I need to and I understand
> (well, mostly) how it works.
> Remember, there are different causes of low vision, which affect in different
> ways.
> Reading text is anightmare for me. I cab't read a car number plate at arms
> length!
Which is why I'd have thought a braille display would be perfect for you!
("refreshable Braille display", "Braille terminal")
get_iplayer at the command line is as simple as `get_iplayer -g "program
name"`. That's providing you set the options first, but there are a bunch of us
here more than happy to help with that.
Using the command-line does take a commitment to learning it - and we've all
suffered years of grief doing that! - but I'd really have thought it would be
better than needing a magnifying glass to read your email.
I don't intend this to be a criticism, or to tell you how to live your life, or
anything like that. I cannot imagine how hard it must be to be in your
position. I'm just thinking this would be easier, is all. You're using Ubuntu,
so you're already ahead of the game. If you're within an hour's drive (i.e.
London, Birmingham) I'd even be glad to pop over and help you set things up,
should you ever need that.
I can only imagine that the GUI might be, for you, a big mess of colours which
don't really make sense, and trying to use it like blundering around in a very
strange place. I can only imagine buttons and checkboxes and scrollbars as
difficult to discern or confusing, in your position. The command line gives
output which is simply plain text - I find it a very precise medium.
aB.
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