Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus user testing at MIT

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hello Robin,

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Robin Jeffries wrote:

> web browser, it is still possible to interact with the page while it
> is loading -- the throbber is a progress indicator, not an unavailable
> state indicator.  Don't confuse the two.

Absolutely right.

> says, the use of the mouse pointer for this kind of feedback is
> problematic for the disabled.
>
> available, will be seen by them.  But what about someone who doesn't
> use the mouse?  (Which covers both visually and motor impaired users,
> as well as power users who may not use the mouse much).  They are

The question is - how does the GUI "know" if a window is busy, so that the
mouse cursor switches to hourglass-mode when it is over that window?  If
you've figured that out, then you can extract and present this information
in a different way for the non-mouse users.

regards,

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