I vote for employing Insert and CapsLock as modifiers. This will emulate what's used in some Windows screen readers, and users will be accustomed to it, which is a good thing.
Joe Lazzaro -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Burridge Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:27 PM To: Janina Sajka Cc: Bill Haneman; Willie Walker; 'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List'; 'Gnome Accessibility List'; 'Orca screen reader developers' Subject: Re: Orca on laptops. Hi Janina, > Of course, the fact that this is established practice and widely > expected by users both on Windows and Linux should really end this > discussion, from the user point of view. Choosing anything else will > certainly cause continuing confusion and displeasure among users, so > there'd need to be extremely powerful arguments to choose anything else. > I haven't heard arguments yet in this thread that strike me as > sufficiently convincing to look for some other modifier. > One of the arguments for Insert (or rather KP_Insert, the 0 on the numeric keypad), is that you can do "chords" (Insert-<whatever>) with one hand, whilst the other hand could remain on the braille display. I can quantify how significant that is to a blind user. Hopefully other members of this list can speakup (sorry) and tell us. > It's available, achievable and remappable, and it's what users expect. > What else do we need to put this one to bed? > My feeling is that we just need to pick a default that most people want. If that's CapsLock to be compatible with JAWS and Speakup, then so be it. As it's configurable, other users can adjust accordingly. _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
