On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 13:36 -0400, William Case wrote: > shouldn't a computer be a device that helps people with a reduced > metal capacity overcome the trials and frustrations of life not > increase those difficulties. The trouble is that assistive devices need to be designed by people who've got the experience about what's really needed. What I'd seen in special schools was very limited (in the way that fill the blanks in a form rarely have the blanks that you need), and tend to be overly complicated. For example, have you seen Steven Hawkings chair, with paraphanalia dangling off it in all directions? It turns the chair into a Frankenstein creation. And you can bet your bottom dollar that each device needs its own separate power supply. We're a long way from unintrusive, intuitive, good, assistive computing designing. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
