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Actually, you'd be surprised to know
that the majority of Blind users meet that description.
I work with a lot of seniors who
could click a mouse, but it is a challenge to learn the keyboard
commands.
In reality, most who have been Blind
all their life do much better with technology, because of having to adapt to
using alternitives all their lives.
Most of the teenagers and young
adults I work with got computer training in school, but some of that even leaves
a lot to be desired.
Yes, the majority of potential Orca
users will begin using a computer without even knowing a single keyboard
command, unless we only expect former Windows users to come over to
Linux.
That is why the Jaws tutorials are
not really just a tutorial on using Jaws, but a tutorial on using the computer,
and the keyboard commands are added in as the tutorial goes.
All of the on-line resources are
great, but I think that on-line podcasts on using Linux is like asking someone
to write a computer program to gain access to learning how to write
programs.
Glenn
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 16:34:30 -0500 From: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com> To: orca-list gnome org Subject: Re: [orca-list] Podcasts and/or audio tutorials needed Message-ID: <20150904213430 GH7142 gmail com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Wow, I have a hard time invesioning someone, even windows users, who have computers but can't open a webpage. If they have a windows box and can't open a webpage unless it was just given to them do not sound like good candidates for learning to use Linux. Not that Linux is harder than windows, it can be easier I think actually these days, but opening a webpage is close to the easiest of tasks around I thought. Certainly many people have decent CD burners, so for the quntity of disks that would sell it'd be easy enough for some one to make them on demand out of their home or office. II have never seen the NL S cartridges. Can one record on them with typical end user equiptment? I know there are all kinds of people with all kinds of needs, but I do suspect your potential market is pretty tiny/wouold be hard to get a project going. I would like to see the National Braille Press do some LInux books, cheat sheets etc. Maybe I can talk to them about this. I do not see myself putting a book together this fall, but maybe a couple of refferenced cardss and or quick start guides...???!!! \ |