Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings

["ashley" <ash cox talktalk net>]

the mac is so much easier to learn than windows or linux though; it almost 
tells you what to do as you do it. That's why people switch. I think, if 
you could have 2 modes in orca, that changed settings automaticly, that 
would suit everybody. for example, a "windows mode" or something similar, 
that made orca behave like a windows screen  reader, with the keystrokes teh 
same, and a "orca" mode that changed settings so orca was normal again.

just my thoughts.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin cableone net>
To: "Orca List" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings


> Someone here mentioned that they thought that Orca should not change 
> because
> people want a free screenreader.
> Let me tell everyone, I have introduced Ubuntu to the sighted, and Ubuntu
> with Orca to the Blind, and in all cases, their interest was never in a 
> free
> operating system, but it was the idea of virus-free computing.  But in my
> Blind users, in almost every instance , when they had to start using
> different keystrokes, they said "to heck with it".
> Sighted users I had try Ubuntu enjoyed the resemblance to windows, thus an
> easy learning curve.
> Someone mentioned voice over.  My experience here is that people who buy a
> Mac have replaced their windows computer, and thus had a lot of money
> invested, and at this point, the Mac was their main computer, so they had 
> to
> learn the keystrokes.  Its amazing what we can do when we have to.
> But when people are exploring Linux for security reasons, and a bit of 
> time
> is all they have invested, you aren't going to get anyone won over except
> the techies.  I would like to see more non techies using Linux and Orca, 
> but
> it will never happen if you allow the learning curve to be too steep.
> Glenn
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