Folks, I agree with david here. The mouse is one of those out-of-date products. It does nothing but waste time. When I ask a sighted person to do something for me, they go right for the mouse. You know what I do? Knock there fingers right off the thing! Tyler
----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 9:26:14 Subject: Re: Mouse Vs Keyboard > > > > > his > Funny you mentioned this. Some years ago, I was delivering a new computer to > one customer. I started to teach him how to use the keyboard, by pressing > Alt-F to go to the File menu, and then do your stuff there, or even just > press CTRL-S to save the document. The guy, stubbornly insisted on using his > poor plastic thing, the mouse. So, I let him sit there and fool around with > it for a while. But you know, he took a few moments for every little thing he > needed to do. > > Finally, I made him an offer: Now, I said, let us try this out. Me being > blind, and hence prefering the keyboard commands, you being sighted prefering > the mouse. Let us do ten operations here in this very application, you go > ahead with your mouse, and I will do the same tasks with the keyboard. Then, > let's see, who is performing the quickest. > > Do I need to tell you, who won that game? OK, I am a driven computer person, > he wasn't. But still, I do believe, in most cases you work far quicker with > good shortcut keyboard commands. Even before people will have reached their > mouse, I will have pressed the two or three keystrokes, to perform a certain > task. And, quite often, when working with sighted people, I hear comments > like 'oh, let's see, where did my mouse pointer g"' And, then they start to > rush that thing back and forth, so as to find out, where on the screen they > are. And having found out, it is time to start moving it to the desired > position. Finally, they can start clickng the mouse. Pfew! I am three lines > ahead with my typing, at this moment; having performed the task way back! > (Smile!) > > You know, sometimes I get the feeling, that if soemthing is technically > posible, LET's GO FOR IT! No matter if it is practical, just let's go for it; > cause it is technically possible. How did people ever do without a mouse? > > Yes, the way GW has sorted things out, with keyboard control for the mouse > I guess is some of the better ways to do the job, for the blind. OK, it > might not always be the perfect solution, but in most cases work pretty fine. > Besides, I really think, we as blind people have enough 'gadgets' to drag > around, and fool with. If I can save myself the hazzle of having to keep > track of yet another plastic thing on my desk be it wired, or wireless I > greatly prefer doing so. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:00 PM > Subject: Mouse Vs Keyboard > > > I find this topic on mouse envy rather interesting. I suspect it is a > generational issue. My children are taught keyboarding, however they don't > seem to have reached the same level of proficiency as people who learned how > to type in the olden days on those manual Underwood and Olivetti manual > typewriters. > > I see a similar phenomenon at work. People who used to use those word > processors, such as the ones put out by Wang, do not rely on the mouse unless > they have to do so. They claim that it is faster to keep their hands on the > keyboard than it is to constantly go back and forth from keyboard to mouse. > > Personally I am glad that GW Micro doesn't focus too much on allowing me to > use their product with a physical mouse. I don't need anything that will > force me to work more slowly. The keyboard mouse navigation keys do more than > I require. > > People wonder why WordPerfect has hung in there for so long. It is not only > because Corel products cost less than Microsoft, it is because there are > still enough of us old curmudgeons around who recognize the value of good > keyboarding (once known as typing) skills. WordPerfect has a significant > amount of keyboard options. I must admit, Microsoft is catching up. Someone > must have told them about the benefits of the keyboard. And to give younger > generations credit, I notice that as they become more and more familiar with > keyboard commands they quickly adopt them in loo of the mouse. > > Finally it is not only those of us who are blind or vision impaired that are > challenged by a physical mouse: there are other disabilities, such as types > of dyslexia, that make using a mouse difficult, if not impossible. > > Vic > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. 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