Hi Lori, Sure. I understand where you were coming from. Unfortunately, the mouse has been given a bad reputation, because of previous bad experiences like yours. What a lot of blind computer users fail to realize until its explained to them that their bad experience is not due to the mouse itself, but how the programmer chose to program the mouse in his/her application that causes the issue with accessibility. Here is a valid case in point.
A lot of blind users probably have never used a mouse to point and click on items in Windows applications. That's because some screen readers like Jaws do not track the physical mouse pointer, and use a virtual mouse cursor, the Jaws Cursor, instead. However, that doesn't mean the mouse couldn't be 90% to 100% accessible for a blind user too. On Linux, for example, the Orca screen reader has an option to track the mouse that can be enabled in preferences. Once a Linux user does that they can freely move the mouse around on the screen and Orca will tell them what is under the mouse such as buttons, panels, program launchers, checkboxes, and so on. It takes a little bit of practice to get use to, but in the Gnome graphical environment for Linux I've been able to use the mouse to move to the main panel, click on a program launcher, and start Firefox, Thunderbird, whatever without even touching the keyboard. Which goes to show its not the mouse to blame but how its program and how access technology supports it. On 1/31/12, Lori Duncan <lori_dunca...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, thanks for that, I think I understand it a bit better now, I > didn't realise the mouse could be used that way at all. When I was at > School for example they had games which were mouse friendly but it was click > on certain things in the pictures to make the person actually talk or move, > hense my hatered for the mouse in games :) > > From Lori. --- 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.
