Re: Is Research It really necessary?
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Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonboy13@...>
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The Human wear products and FS products are not laptops by any stretch of the imagination. Perhaps when you can download programs and drivers on the cloud then run them on those note-takers you can call them Laptops. But frankly I only get a fraction of the functionality I get from a laptop on any Note taker. Perhaps a phone will be better, but again, it only has 2 gigs of ram if that and I really like my speed. My screen costs a huge amount, adds to the weight and requires all kinds of stuff that I just don't want to give. I once gave a speech on how useless and how many negative things happen when you have a computer screen, including the fact that so many people get tendinitis from using the mouse and not moving their hands around the keyboard like we do. The only rebuttal sighted people were able to come up with was: "But I like my screen..." If I was Spock I'd say there was a serious problem with putting screens on every computer! And it's because of screens that we don't have as much accessibility. The screen is the source of most computer evils! :O :P Thanks, Brandon Keith Biggs -----Original Message-----
From: Cristobal Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:00 PM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: Is Research It really necessary? Not to mention those times where you're working on an important document and for whatever reason Jaws isn't responding or there's some sort of other issue with the computer where Narrator or NVDA isn't goiing to help and just randomly closing windows and pressing buttons is not what you want to do. My old Toshiba laptop's screen gave out about 2 weeks before I was able to get my new Windows 7 system and instead of forking out the $200.00 or so I was quoted to replace the screen, I went without the screen. It worked fine since I have no use for it, but there were times where my sighted wife was pressed up against the laptop screen with a flash light trying to make out whatever error message or some other diagnostic text she could. There were some stressful times in deed and even though I in theory didn't need the screen, it sure is helpful to have one for just those occasions. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar, Thinking it's Time for a Long Vacation Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:48 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Is Research It really necessary? Soronel, I'm skeptical that there will ever be such a machine. Point is, that the mere fact of portability means that a sighted user will want to have some way to see the display away from the desk, and not having one just makes this a portable keyboard with a processor and memory -- and useless to the majority of computer purchasers. Now if there was a transmitter built in that would convert any display or glass surface within 5 feet of the device into a display, well then we have something phenomenal. Just think -- I'm standing near a storefront, and want to look up something. I face the window glass, and the glass becomes opaque enough to display what the handheld keyboard/computer is showing. Hey, a person wearing eyeglasses could have the image showing on the inside of their lens. What a concept, and that makes sense now. Not very useful to us, but perhaps the next logical step in portable computers. The cloud connects to the device and the image shows on a nearby surface. Apple, are you listening? Steve Jobs is talking to you from the cloud, and saying "Yes, Farfar has a great idea!" Dave Carlson Tastefully composed and launched near the Pacific Ocean using a Dell Latitude E6520, JAWS 13.0.718, and Windows 7 Professional 32-bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 13:36 Subject: Re: Is Research It really necessary? I want to get rid of the screen for reasons of weight far more than reasons of battery life at this point. Adding more batteries or turning the screen down don't really solve that problem. I am actually somewhat surprised that there doesn't seem to be a thin battery powered computer with built-in keyboard that the manufacturer expects to be used with an external display, which would basically be a laptop without a screen. Unfortunately, given how tablets seem to be the push of the future I do not expect portable accessibility to improve over the near to medium term. On 4/25/12, Farfar, Thinking it's Time for a Long Vacation <dgcarlson@...> wrote: Brandon,http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&q=dance&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sl=en&tl =it&sa=X&ei=jDGYT84GxJmJAvnk7NMP&ved=0CCoQrgYwAA# http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_color_were_Dorothy's_slippers_in_'The_Wonderf ul_Wizard_of_Oz' https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=837&bih=443&q=4%2B9-100000000*2.4848 5921%2B0.000001*3+square+root+5%282*5.09876%29-%285.0129%29&oq=4%2B9-1000000 00*2.48485921%2B0.000001*3+square+root+5%282*5.09876%29-%285.0129%29&aq=f&aq i=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=serp.3...20649.20838.0.21686.2.2.0.0.0.0.183.342.0j2.2. 0.Q6z3iZmw3jw <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201204 25/33fbfbbc/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@... _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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