Jef Raskin - The Humane Environment (Pythonic)
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Mon Dec 30 21:19:47 EST 2002
Jeff Epler wrote:
>
> Looking at it another way, the sticky keys that a person with limited
> mobility must use would turn this "quasimodal" interface into a modal one.
> If modal interfaces are really a whole realm of bad, then surely this
> quasimodal interface is bad since people with certain disabilities will
> have to use a fully modal variant of the interface.
I strongly suspect that for one who has to use a computer by the
sole means of a suck/blow switch (i.e. two outputs!) the use of modes
is not only a Good Thing, but it's *essential* to practical operation
of the machine.
Even modes cannot *always* be considered bad...
-Peter
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