Jef Raskin - The Humane Environment (Pythonic)

[Peter Hansen]

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