Or Botton wrote:
> After reading the thread that was evolved around the
> "DOS internet suite" topic, i've thought of something.
>
> Here's an idea: Lets try to make an interface!
>
> The idea is to make a GUI interface that although easy
> to learn, is still not limiting or "covering" the user
> from the abilities of the computer.
>
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An admirable idea, Or.
I notice some of our blind users are concerned that
a GUI would make things harder for them, as some of
them use "screen readers" to speak the content.
A possible answer to this is to deliberately design
a provision into any GUI like this -- along the lines
of an API hook -- to specifically address this.
We are familiar with the "hint popups" that accompany
many of the buttons on newer GUI applications, where
a short text phrase is displayed when the mouse pauses
over an Icon. The interface could just as easily
speak a phrase for icons and other interface attributes.
Alternatively a "text mode GUI" could be an option.
Those of you who have seen the text mode windowing used
in the FoxPro interface (versions 1.0 through 2.6) will
know that this can have viability. It's quite possible
to have an event-driven, windowed, multi-tasking,
mouse-enabled without resorting to graphics.
It's also possible to switch in and out of graphics
mode without the customary "video trauma" of jarring
lines and blank screens (a graphics support product,
called "espia" used to do this well).
None of this stuff is trivial, but it IS all possible.
I'll shut up now.
~Garry
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