[duxuser] Re: specific cases of non-blind-friendliness
- From: Daveed Mandell <daveed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:10:25 -0800 (PST)
Look at Megadots, George. David Holladay is on this list; so is Caryn.
Come on, folks. Get together and compare and contrast features.
I thought you folks would have done this long ago! Megadots has its
quirkiness, but it is also very easy for blind people to use.
Duxbury is absolutely not!
If anything, I've heard it said many times that it is
blind-hostile--whether or not that's true, I don't know.
I only know it isn't exactly blind-friendly!
How about providing a Windows version of Megadots?
I feel Duxbury Systems has been quite negligent here, and it needs to take
steps to making its
soiftware more useful to the blind community. Yes, how about a Windows
version of Megadots?
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Catherine Thomas wrote:
> George,
> Off the top of my head, here are a few:
> 1. DBT prints all of its initial manuals and help screens n file
> formats
> unique to duxbury, (dxp). In order to get help, we have to already know
> how to use
> the
> program.
> 2. Certain options which directly effect blind users are neither
> described nor explained. There is something called cursor tracking for
> example, which, if disabled, causes the screen access devices (speech and
> braille) to virtually freeze. Even though they may be doing what they are
> suposed to, we can't see anything.
> 3. In the system menu there is no way to determine what items are
> checked or not checked. Where other menus have x's which can be turned on
> and off via the spacebar, the system menu has no such thing.
> 4. There is no complete list of duxbury defaults so people can
> know from where they may be starting.
> 5. I never could find an explanation to justify my editing a file
> in duxbury whose keystrokes I do not know versus editing the same file in
> a word processor (be it word or wordperfect or lotus or any other.
> 6. Sometimes, when I have translated a dxp file, the codes are
> included with the translation. Nowhere is there information as to how to
> create a file without the codes. The particular example is the
> duxguide.dxp help screen.
>
> I'll stop now. If you are serious George, and I know you are, ask
> us for help. We will be more than glad to give it.
> I beg support and constructive suggestions froom other blind users to the
> list.
> For those who think that I am just too stupid to live, please write to me
> privately, rather than disturbing these other nice people.
> Catherine
>
>
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> -Catherine Thomas
> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
>
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