Indeed, Richard, That's the very point I would make about Hypercard: that it accomodated all levels of users.
I'm certainly not making the point that mouse-based interaction is superior/preferrable/etc. as oppposed to keyboard-based interaction. Only that GUIs were initially designed to stress mouse-based interaction over keyboard-based interaction. As with our favorite x-talks, more ways of doing things is better ;-) I SWEAR I still find myself doing the apple-y thingy to eject disks... even in OS X @;-P Then, when that predictably doesn't work, I'll just click-drag it to the trash can. Always gives my students the willies. Judy On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ideally they would do well with both. One benefit of the keyboard over > the mouse is that the buttons don't move around. :) > > A lot of it depends on the task. If you're doing a lot of typing you > don't want to take your hands off the home row to go fiddle with a mouse. > > Also, blind customers need keyboard access for all features (though > sadly I've had little luck getting my Rev-based apps to work with screen > reader software). > > One thing I gotta say in favor of the Win HIG is how Microsoft > repeatedly stresses the importance of having all features accessible > from BOTH the keyboard and the mouse. For all of Apple's push on > accessibility, it wasn't until Tiger that they made all controls > keyboard-accessible, and even then it's an option you need to find and > turn on. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
