[duxuser] Re: specific cases of non-blind-friendliness
- From: Daveed Mandell <daveed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:14:42 -0800 (PST)
Megadots is intuitive and it has intelligent formatting capabilities and
commands. Another alternative would be to meld the two programs together.
Joe and Peter and others should be here. This is a serious problem and
needs to be solved.
Perhaps after Csun! To David and Caryn's credit, they managed to
accomplish something that Duxbury has never been able to do, and I know it
wasn't easy!
10.5 should never be released until it is made blind-friendly.
Duxbury has a lot of fine features, but it is anything but intuitive.
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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