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Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!! |
Date: |
09 Apr 2003 10:45:48 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
Phillip> It depends how he is using Emacs. An emacspeak interface
Phillip> would work well within both. However there is still an
Phillip> advantage to using a windowing version of emacs, as simply
Phillip> moving between the emacs window and other windows will be
Phillip> easier, as it will have the correct title, that is "emacs"
Phillip> instead of "xterm", or "command prompt" or whatever.
Lee> Wouldn't the command prompt (and many other programs) be
Lee> enhanced by being run from within an Emacs window? At least,
Lee> Emacsspeak would handle these without further configurations!
Lee> :)
Maybe. People like to interact with the computers in different
ways. Emacspeak's "do everything within emacs" is good for some, poor
for others.
Phillip> Most of the speech interfaces out there do actually reflect
Phillip> the visual interface. Many of the windows ones for
Phillip> instance, when they are reading text will only read what is
Phillip> actually on screen. Hence the blind user still needs
Phillip> functionality to minimize and maximize windows, rather than
Phillip> just move between them, even though you might have though
Phillip> this was a purely visual cue.
Lee> I hope there won't be 3-D animated colourful icons on their
Lee> desktops. (And a dancing paperclip would certainly be
Lee> confusing for these people.)
How do you know what is confusing for "these people"? Actually this is
one of emacspeaks's major difficulties. T.V.Raman, who is the main
author is blind, and emacspeak reflects this. Most of the users of
screen reading technology are not blind, but partially sighted. While
much of the input comes audibly, those with some sight often use if
profitably, for determining, for example, which window they have
selected. While the full glory of the dancing paperclip might not be
useful, that it is obvious, and reasonably clearly differentiable from
the rest of the screen, might make the paperclip useful.
Its easy for the fully sighted person to make assumptions about what
is, and what is not good for the visually impaired. These assumptions
are often wrong.
Cheers
Phil
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, (continued)
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Tim X, 2003/04/03
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Tim X, 2003/04/08
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, David Kastrup, 2003/04/08
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Phillip Lord, 2003/04/08
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/04/09
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- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/04/09
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, David Kastrup, 2003/04/09
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Tim X, 2003/04/10
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, David Kastrup, 2003/04/10
- Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Hubert Chan, 2003/04/10
Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, Francois Fleuret, 2003/04/03
Re: What did you do with Emacs!!!!!, David Kastrup, 2003/04/06