Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

This seems to be a good idea asuming that all will come from either 
windows background or Linux background.
But some might be using mac.  another problem is that proprietory OS 
tends to have a dirty habbit of changing look and feel an thus keybindings.
So such a think will need blind following whether it is good or bad.
And as far as orca is concerned.  i train many blind people and many of 
them change the orca's keyboard shortcuts.  For example all my students 
who shifted from jaws have set the read all to insert down arror.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Sunday 02 May 2010 10:58 PM, ashley wrote:
> 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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> > 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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