You know why they wanted to have Windows anyway was because the sighted
folks didn't want to learn any of the commands.  They would just assume
point and click.  Although I do know a few sighted people who use the
keystrokes that they could use with a mouse it is just what I mean a few
and far and few in between.  In fact, last summer I surprised a friend of
mine at a radio shop where they had a computer set up with not only
Motorola RSS that is Windows based, but they hooked the computer up so
they could watch TV via the computer.  Now, I guess that on the screen
there is a picture of a remote control like you would see on a regular
TV.  All of the times I saw them change channels or whatever they used the
mouse, but I surprised them when I used page up and down and the numbers
to change channels.  They were surprised that I was able to get into the
menu and to shut the TV ap out.  I didn't have JFW there so the keyboard
strokes will work without a screen reader.  The person who has this set up
mainly has it tuned to CNN or the weather channel, but I think that with
such a program you can have presets as well.  It would be interesting to
see how well this would work with JFW.





On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rick Lewis wrote:

> Mike,
> Laziness is also an issue here. Most sighted folks would rather point and
> click, not think and use arrows, (or alt-arrows in IE.)
> We blind guys aren't much different, I suppose, but frankly, it takes a
> greater level of efficiency and awareness to effectively use our software.
> For both the blind and sighted, those who expect to learn little are in
> danger of being left out in the cold, but the blind spectator will freeze
> first.
> We just have a bigger learning curve.
> And the steps we take for granted are ones that sighted folks wouldn't
> bother with.
> In fact, computers didn't even catch on with the general public until the
> learning curve was decreased.
> --Rick
>