Sam, you're correct that they're all different in how they lay things out, and indeed on exactly how you interact with them.
However, the unerlying concepts are the same. PS: If you use an iphone or an android phone, you're also using a gui. Sam Hartman writes: > >>>>> "Cheryl" == Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> writes: > > > Cheryl> But my experiences with all three gui systems - linux, Mac > Cheryl> and Windows - are each quite different from each other in a > Cheryl> lot of ways. On the one hand, I don't think learning one > Cheryl> helps a lot with the others as far as screenreader and > Cheryl> layout goes but on the other hand I don't recall ever > Cheryl> getting confused between how to work on each of the three. > u > > For me, Mac really helped learn Windows 2000. At least once I Figured > out that unlike JAWS for DOS, alt brought up the menu bar rather than > silencing speech. O, that was so frustrating. > > I've found that Gnome3 and modern Mac seem to have a lot in common and I > find that one helped me with the other. Not so much in screen reader > usage, but in terms of knowing what to expect where and how to find > things. > > I also think windows 8 feels a lot more Mac/Gnome like than say Windows > 7. > Windows 8 did take a bit to get used to. > > --Sam > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
