Aside from CNN, the Weather Channel, Discovery, TLC and the History Chanel (and maybe ESPN and ESPN2), I can't imagine there being anything on television worth designing packages to watch it via the computer. (grin) You'd think watching it on the modulated milbkbottle would be bad enough! (grin) Mike < K 7 U I J > ----- Original Message ----- From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: sorry to be a pain in the ... > 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 > > >