I know two blind people. One uses Linux and hates Windows, the other uses Windows and hates Windows. JAWS is the most popular screenreading utility for the blind. Do you know how hard it is to use Windows if you're blind? It's damn near impossible, and nowhere near as efficient as using a text based system. My blind friend that uses Linux gets around great with it. Hell, I used Linux in console mode for over a year becuase I only had 4 megs of ram, and I frankly missed very little about the Windows GUI I switched away from to do it. The only really useful graphical utils are web browsers and *MAYBE* word processors anyway. Unix systems have endless awesome console utils -- irc, news, mail, instant messaging, web browsing, word processing, anything you could need. Except no pretty images in web pages. Well guess what, blind people can't see the pretty images anyway.
The only thing that JAWS is going to be able to do for you in windows is tell you what the text is inside of the neat little windows. In other words, the pretty graphics only hinder a blind user, they offer ZERO benefit whatsoever. Microsoft, are you listening? Your little accessability patches make your system USEABLE for a blind user, but in no way powerful or really useful day-to-day.
Apparently WIPO is unfamiliar with the fact that Primus is a special case. "Primus Sucks!" is considered the appropriate way of expressing your approval for the band. Nobody who likes Primus says "Primus Rules," it's always "Primus Sucks!" It's a quirk. Not an arguement in favor of handing -sucks domains over to the owner of the copyright that is being criticized.
Microsoft invented the ballless mouse? What? Suns have had optical mice for a decade, haven't they? I doubt Sun even invented it, I bet.. I bet Xerox PARC actually invented it. I know it was primarily used for graphics early on.
Yes, the original optical mice required a special mousepad for the mouse to track on. But it was only a matter of time before it could track on any surface. I'm willing to bet logitech's optical trackball sensors would work as mouse sensors on any surface. Again, not to say logitech came out with their optical system before MS, who knows. But I'm POSITIVE the optical mouse has been around far longer than MSR.
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In our opinion this article is extremely badly researched and written. Furthermore it shows a lack of knowledge on the author's part.
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- reid
Do you people not understand the meaning of "deaf blind?"
I know two blind people. One uses Linux and hates Windows, the other uses Windows and hates Windows. JAWS is the most popular screenreading utility for the blind. Do you know how hard it is to use Windows if you're blind? It's damn near impossible, and nowhere near as efficient as using a text based system. My blind friend that uses Linux gets around great with it. Hell, I used Linux in console mode for over a year becuase I only had 4 megs of ram, and I frankly missed very little about the Windows GUI I switched away from to do it. The only really useful graphical utils are web browsers and *MAYBE* word processors anyway. Unix systems have endless awesome console utils -- irc, news, mail, instant messaging, web browsing, word processing, anything you could need. Except no pretty images in web pages. Well guess what, blind people can't see the pretty images anyway.
The only thing that JAWS is going to be able to do for you in windows is tell you what the text is inside of the neat little windows. In other words, the pretty graphics only hinder a blind user, they offer ZERO benefit whatsoever. Microsoft, are you listening? Your little accessability patches make your system USEABLE for a blind user, but in no way powerful or really useful day-to-day.
Apparently WIPO is unfamiliar with the fact that Primus is a special case. "Primus Sucks!" is considered the appropriate way of expressing your approval for the band. Nobody who likes Primus says "Primus Rules," it's always "Primus Sucks!" It's a quirk. Not an arguement in favor of handing -sucks domains over to the owner of the copyright that is being criticized.
Microsoft invented the ballless mouse? What? Suns have had optical mice for a decade, haven't they? I doubt Sun even invented it, I bet.. I bet Xerox PARC actually invented it. I know it was primarily used for graphics early on.
Yes, the original optical mice required a special mousepad for the mouse to track on. But it was only a matter of time before it could track on any surface. I'm willing to bet logitech's optical trackball sensors would work as mouse sensors on any surface. Again, not to say logitech came out with their optical system before MS, who knows. But I'm POSITIVE the optical mouse has been around far longer than MSR.