I spent two hours on the phone the other night trying to help a blind
friend get into the Inbox of Outlook Express.  We could find Inbox, but
whether we hit enter or clicked the mouse, nothing happened.  In despair, I
posted the problem to the JFW list.  The reply was--are you ready?--
TAB!

My point is that Windows is ***not*** intuitive, and what works in one
circumstance in one program will not necessarily work in another.  In this
case we were in a treeview, needing to tab to a list view.  If you don't
think out-of-the-box, Windows can be a real frustrating thing.  When you
know how to make it do what it is supposed to do, it's pretty terrific.  If
you could see the screen at a glance, it would be a hundred times easier.
Remembering that 80% of learning is visual...  In order to keep even,
blinks have to be really smart people.

At 10:14 AM 12/19/98 EST, you wrote:
>I am a sighted computer user (62 years old) and have converted everything to
>Windows except for my DOS Version of Peachtree (accounting program).  The
>learning curve is tremendous for me and I did try to convert this program in
>1996 but gave up and went back to DOS.  It was the easy way out at the time.
>In the next 2 weeks I am being forced to learn the Windows version of this
>program as the cost for my tax updates for DOS are approximately $400.00 as
>opposed to the Windows update at $130.  Economic circumstances make us do
>strange things!
>
>We all like being comfortable and any change is difficult and presents a new
>learning challenge.
>
>Pat Hemmer
>
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