Re: [OT] Google abandons Windows

James Jolley <jrjolley@xxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) said:

[1] *I* wound him up without understanding how - he got upset because I
suggesting that it'd be good for blind people to have better computer
technology. No, really, he did. I cannot work out why or how or
anything.

You didn't actually. You suggested that developers include a dedicated
blind mode into there applications.

I suggested that computing platform designers should include a dedicated
blind mode in the operating system that developers could exploit for the
benefit of blind users.

If that's not suggesting that blind people should have better
technology, I don't know what is.

How can you claim otherwise and expect to be taken seriously?

<shrug>

Never going to happen and if it
does, I stop using computers.

What possible objection could you have to being given a UI which
permitted you to get more work out of a PC with greater ease, and also
permitted you easiest possible access to a greater fraction of the full
features of that PC?

Because that's what I'm talking about.

No, I'm not trying to wind you up, I'm trying to understand something
that I do not understand simply because I'm interested in the
information.

You also seem to have powerful objections to the thought that a computer
firm would develop such a technology - why object to someone proposing
the use of super high technology to make life better for blind people?

I just don't understand.

I'm not interested in blindness specific
computing thanks,

Yes, you've explained before how you seem to want things to be slower
and more expensive and more awkward for you than ought to be necessary.
I don't understand you, but if that's what you want, off you go, I
shan't stand in your way.

Not that it much matters: what I'm talking about doesn't actually exist
at the moment, does it?

I work like the sighted as much as possible.

Oi vey!

I'm not saying *YOU* have to change anything *YOU* do, but don't argue
that everyone else is best served by what you personally choose to do
now, don't argue that they should be denied something better than that
which you personally use now.

Working like the sighted is stupid if you are blind and if there is a
better alternative available - currently, you're stuck with a sighted
persons' GUI with adaptions for the blind so it's not stupid to work
that way.

But why would you not use a really high quality blind mode UI if one
were provided?

I don't understand why you think that your interests are best served
using a UI optmized for the sighted. Your eyes don't work - so surely
you need something /better/: you *deserve* something better from the
tech firms.

That's my line - but I don't say that this proposed better thing should
be compulsory, so if you want to be some old fogie stick in the mud and
stick with what you know, why not? I shan't object.

Rowland.
(who's an old fogie stick in the mud in that sense himself in some
directions, as it happens)

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