Re: [Audyssey] my beef about Microsoft - Re: plans for anupdatedLone Wolf
And now we have to use a system of ribbons instead of pulldown menus. --- "Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord." - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 4:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] my beef about Microsoft - Re: plans for anupdatedLone Wolf Hi Thomas, Yeah, you know allot of people just do not like change. Routine is comfortable. And learning a new way of doing things may not be easy for some. And then there is that often our access is behind. That is our screen reader of choice may not support the newest version of an operating system as it comes out. And then I don't think that the graphical user interface is as intuitive for us as it is for sighted folks. So when it totally changes it may be harder for us to get a grip on what is going on with it. Heck it took allot of blind people a very long time to move on from the text based command line to the graphical user interface. BFN Jim A long time ago I changed my name from Ron Moore. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] my beef about Microsoft - Re: plans for anupdatedLone Wolf
yeah, though ribbons are just menus on a big string. At 09:30 a.m. 12/12/2011 -0600, you wrote: And now we have to use a system of ribbons instead of pulldown menus. --- "Security is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of the Lord." - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 4:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] my beef about Microsoft - Re: plans for anupdatedLone Wolf Hi Thomas, Yeah, you know allot of people just do not like change. Routine is comfortable. And learning a new way of doing things may not be easy for some. And then there is that often our access is behind. That is our screen reader of choice may not support the newest version of an operating system as it comes out. And then I don't think that the graphical user interface is as intuitive for us as it is for sighted folks. So when it totally changes it may be harder for us to get a grip on what is going on with it. Heck it took allot of blind people a very long time to move on from the text based command line to the graphical user interface. BFN Jim A long time ago I changed my name from Ron Moore. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] my beef about Microsoft - Re: plans for anupdatedLone Wolf
Hi Trouble, Yeah the only really good thing about dos text games was that the text got spoken automatically by every single dos screen reader. Of course now people like Jeremy are coding directly to the API of all of the windows screen readers. I never figured out how to do that, so only code to the sapi5 speech engine. But it sure made all the difference in the world when windows gave me DirectX so that my games could asynchronously play wave files, multiple wave files, pan the wave files and adjust the volume and frequency of the wave files. So yes, probably most of the change is good, some is not so much though. At least in my opinion. But I do still like to do allot of things the old fashion way. Like I have made a short cut icon on the desk top for the programs that I run all the time. One of those short cuts is just to the command prompt. I spend allot of time at the command prompt. And I have written many batch files for doing things like changing to folders that I go into all the time. And batch files for listing folders in the old dos 8, 3, size and date format. And the same format but by size or date. And then my command prompt beeps to let me know when it is done so that I can start looking at the listing bottom up with the review cursor. You know just like I used to on a dos computer. Batch files are great for making backups as well. I just find allot of things are still easier or quicker to do at the command prompt than they are in the windows interface. BFN Jim The command prompt is our friend. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
