Re: [orca-list] Page presentation issues

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> Regardless, I think we can learn some valuable lessons from the Windows
> screen readers, even if we don't like some of the approaches taken in
> them (i.e. virtual buffering of webpages). There seems to be this
> attitude of, "Oh, well Windows does it, therefore we should steer clear
> of it and do the exact opposite!"

In my opinion, we should try to focus on the task the user is trying to 
accomplish and work to make that efficient, compelling, and usable.  
This can mean questioning why things were done the way they were on 
Windows, perhaps adopting some of the idioms, and perhaps abandoning 
others.  I'd like to believe that this user-centered approach has 
resulted in a pretty usable screen reader in a very short period of 
time.

Will