Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:05 -0700

Orhan,
Hi. It sounds as if you're overreacting. All Ann is saying, below, is that 
she recognizes that input peripherals are likely to finally change 
eventually. Eventually. Not that the keyboard and mouse are going to 
disappear in six months. She isn't expressing anxiety but rather just 
curiosity and appreciation for the gradual evolution of computer technology, 
including the pleasant thought that other incipient changes may eventually 
serve to level playing fields in various ways and provide everyone kinds of 
access none of us, blind or sighted, enjoys for the moment. This is all 
pleasant and innocuous, not something I'd have thought would inspire a 
heated response like yours. There isn't anything to be agitated about. Not 
to presume too much, but maybe you're carrying over some contentious 
feelings and some anger that are transferring over from the recent squabbles 
in a Blind Tech thread? if this is so, I can understand, but no one's 
arguing heatedly about this topic here, and no one's attacking you, or 
whatever it is you're reacting to.

Respectfully.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "orhan deniz" <orhan.deniz63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


See, that's the problem with us blind ppl. Just wait, be a bit patient, and
relax! Hell,  keyboards will be here for a long time. This would even effect
sighted secutarries etc who used a keyboard. It's just total non-sense to
think that the keyboard will be wiped out  with the new evolution of touch
screen. That's ridiculous!
BTw, as expressed in earlier posts, this will be an option. And, if this was
gonna happen, Freedom scientific, GW micro, dolphin, serotek etc all work
with microsoft. Do you guys realise how much bitching and moaning would take
place between AT companies etc?
Anyway, just my two british pouns worth lol.


Orhan.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ann medlar" <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


> Hey Yardbird,
> I watched an interview with Bill gates and Steve ? the CEO of Microsoft on
> CNBC and according to the interview in the future there will be no more
> keyboard andno more mouse.  I am sure that accessibilities will be
> considered.  Believe me I think it is a ways away but I think we are
> evolving to an operating system that might and I mean might be seamless
> for
> everyone.  A few months ago I remember Bill Gatesstating that allbooks
> will
> be available on web.  It is just a matter of time once the copyright
> issues
> are worked out.  Pretty soon I think information will be available to all
> regardless of modality.  Let's hope so.  Imagine no added costs for
> accessibility.  Cheers in advance.
> Ann
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>
>
>> P.S.
>>
>> So, does this mean that you believe the person you replied to is
>> spreading
>> eisinformation about the future of Windows in order to turn some of us
>> toward considering a Mac or a Linux computer? That's the sense I get from
>> the Wikipedia explanation, that it means to spread negative rumors about
>> a
>> product in order to turn potential customers off to it and propel them
>> toward the product made by the company tha'ts disseminating the FUD.
>>
>> Or is it now sometimes used more casually, so that there doesn't have to
> be
>> a real or implied motive behind it in that sense if you just want to
> invoke
>> the expression in a more general way, for effect?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brandon B" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>>
>>
>> FUD,  means
>> Fear, uncertainty and doubt
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>> Yardbird wrote:
>> > ah, here's an opportunity to learn a new technical word. Fud. What's a
>> > fud.
>> > Is it a mistype of an all-capitalized acronym, FUD? If so, what does
> that
>> > stand for? Or is it a word, in which case what does it mean? any
> relation
>> > to
>> > Elmer Fudd?
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:14 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>> >
>> >
>> > Just because a touch interface is optional, doesn't mean it's the
>> > default. Windows seven would fail if your fud was the case because many
>> > hardware offered out at launch wouldn't be totally ready for this.
>> >
>> >
>> > Jim Talley wrote:
>> >
>> >> Microsoft unveils touch-screen Windows
>> >> Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for
>> >> touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and
>> >> its top executives
>> >> reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
>> >>
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