Dianne,
Thanks, I agree completely on the thoughts in your blog entry.
I thought it hadsomething to do with the mac terminal as an shell
environment which had some impact on how remind works..
As I have for decades, I work backwards to make hardware/software choices.
First those computer tasks and ends of interest are identified and from
that flow the decisions logically. A cli environment is primary in that
regard as I do most of my work there using existing ports.
As a blind computer user I needed the best screen reading approach and text
to speech voice choices available and especially in a cli context, the gui
is of little interest and used on a minority of tasks and only when forced
to do so. The many ports from the nix universe was a plus which are
generally screen reader friendly.
Also I wanted the power apple script affords to modify the screen
reader functionality a mac has to work as I wanted.
Without all the details those options in the linux world were for me not
the logical first choice. I use linux boxes with ssh acccess without
hesitation.
I wouldn't touch windows with a 10 foot pole for the reasons you mention
and its general lack of access to a useful screen reader at the cli and
limited ;ports from the nix universe.
Thanks for the explanation with which I agree,
Dan
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:31:50 -0500 (EST)
"Dan D." <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm curious about your thinking on the mac comment, can you expand
please.
My anti-Apple stance is pretty well-known in open-source circles.
http://dianne.skoll.ca/blog/2010-05-18-anti-apple.html
Regards,
Dianne.
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