On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:18:17AM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > I've just shown you several links that suggest GUIs and accessibility are not > > inimiical to each other - why do you persist in saying otherwise ? > I did not say that. In the words of your Gnome reference: > > 2.A large class of users with physical disabilities as well as > blind users and other groups, need to have full keyboard > access to all applications (with no functions available only > via the mouse). Note that many "power-users" are also well > served by this functionality
and an accessible toolkit indeed supports this. I can navigate to the combo easily using a keyboard in Qt. > Richard complained about not having keyboard access that used to be > available. see "power-users" above. I've already said it is a lyxfunc/minibuffer bug ... jeez > > no, but it is stupid. Like Lars has already pointed out, such users should be > > using the minibuffer. The fact that minibuffer support is not complete is a > > lyxfunc bug. Either way it has nothing to do with the new GUI changes. > > The truth is that they will probably stick with LaTeX, and enjoy a > maxi-buffer. and ? lyx tries its best to cater for a wide range of users, and NO HARDER. You can only please most people most of the time. I'm not going to back out a useful clarification of the accepted input for the benefit of one user, sorry. > > Read "Explorable interfaces" and "Learnability" here : > > http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html > > > I did not find anything relevant in that one. ummm ... anyway,this is wasting bug fixing bandwidth ... regards john -- "Take the ideas you find useful. Try not to get hung up on the labels." - Jonathan S. Shapiro
