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Comment Re:Programming with disabilities (Score 1) 79

The biggest technical issue with accessibility is the fixation on the all-in-one user interface and application model. If you separate the user interface from the application then you can swap out the UI for another one. I could remove the GUI and put in a speech or an interface with graphical augmentation for feedback. Or use text-to-speech for feedback. Splitting off the UI from the application makes it possible to make an application accessible without having to go through the effort of writing an accessibility interface and it reduces the cost of accessibility on the developers making it possible to make more applications accessible.

In other words, Unix philosophy for the win :)

Comment Re:OK, based upon notebook shopping thus far (Score 1) 118

...if it has a screen resolution I like, AND a good processor, that probably means it has Intel Integrated Graphics or something, or an awful pointing device, right?

We did consider a model where the GPU is hanging on the side off a Thunderbolt cable, but our test group preferred the integrated one.

I still wonder if we made the right choice, though -- the bag-on-the-side would really have differentiated our product from the rest.

Comment Rant mode (Score 1) 431

I don't have an answer, but I'm reading this with keen interest as I feel similarly about input devices. I recently wrote up some of my ongoing keyboard rants where scrollwheels are also discussed. One general issue seems to be that those who don't learn to use keyboards properly, will reinvent similar functionality in mice (arrow keys and pgup/pgdn -> scrollwheels).

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