Re: [orca-list] Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Pdf's are important because a very large portion of the population uses them
and you will encounter them in many situations.  It is a very popular format
because it is cross platform and can be made very secure.  People encounter
it all the time in their jobs and at school.  Oh, and just for
clarification, I wasn't knocking the cli.  I use it all the time.  The
argument was that it was great that we had sooo many choices in Linux for
interface and I chose to focus on the GUI where everyone else may have tons
of choices but we as people who rely on accessibility do not and the
accessibility benefits that could be derived if everyone focused on a
smaller array of choices instead of being scattered to the four winds so to
speak.  My perceived fixation on links lists comes from the fact that I work
in a very fast paced industry where you have to be able ot navigate a page
containing account information for customers very rapidly and have to zip
around a web application from page to page.  I literally could not imagine
doing that job without one and be as efficient.  

Alex M



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Kyle
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:00 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Trying Quantal Quetsal Alpha 3

But you still seem to have missed the point that I have found it much easier
and productive doing everyday tasks such as e-mail, office applications and
web browsing using Linux than I ever could do using Windows. Never mind
lists of links. I never needed them, and found them useless when I had them.
I navigate Firefox quite easily by the navigation keys provided. I do agree
that PDF needs a bit of work, but PDF itself has much better rivals that I
can read much better. After all, what in the world is wrong with HTML? It
can certainly display anything that PDF can, and is much more accessible on
many more platforms. Why did we ever let Adobe try to control our documents
(PDF) and web pages (Flash) anyway?  As for music, I don't do much with
sequencing and production, but I use Audacity all the time for recording and
mixing. It has a couple of bugs related to accessibility, but it certainly
beats that pricy thing called Sound Forge and produces much better recording
effects.

BTW, just because Microsoft and Apple decided to mostly do away with the
command line and text based interfaces doesn't mean that such interfaces
shouldn't be counted among the choices we have. Knocking the command line as
an option is a bad idea, as there are still many good things that make a
shell quite productive. Having said this, I do tend to gravitate toward the
graphical environment for most tasks, although I always keep a terminal open
on desktop 1.

I don't write all this from an emotional attachment to an ideology, but
rather from the prospective of someone who has not only found increased
productivity, but also learned much more about how my computer works while
still being able to just sit down at my computer and work without having to
be a geek to get my work done productively. But yeah, freedom is great too.
~Kyle
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