I absolutely agree with you about not stifling anyone's way of learning scripting. and who know's, Jeff may find an easy way one day of adapting all his VBScript work so it will run under WSH, and so be available to anyone.
Chip -----Original Message----- From: Jared Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: a little contest: who's got the biggest script? On 10/09/2010 04:20 PM, Chip Orange wrote: "When I first heard of windowEyes adding scripting, I thought it would all be for accessibility only." There are some trains of thought that contend this is the way it should be. If it isn't accessibility related, then implemented it in such a way that everyone can use it, not just users of your AT. I know plenty of sighted kids that would love the timed bookmarks in Winamp, but they don't know the first thing about Window Eyes. Why would they? In the accessibility community we spend a lot of time clamboring for access to things others have that we want to have as well. Tethering non-AT enhancements to an AT product makes me feel slightly as if the pot is calling the kettle black. But make no mistake, Jeff's script is awesome and his work on it worthy of much gratitude. And I won't be the one that stifles a beginner programmer's inspiration of developing a fun game with his screen reader's scripting tools as a way to learn. This is merely philosophy discussion, and if I've learned anything so far in the technical world it's that philosophy is worth very little held up next to something that actually works.
