[bksvol-discuss] Re: geewiz improvements

  • From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:31:58 -0600

All,  progress and innovation takes place through a combination of 
top/down and bottom up approaches and the infinite resulting feedback 
loops.  Ideas from Bookshare engineering do not preclude our own ideas and 
viceversa.  We should let our ideas be known, as Lisa and her crowd do 
listen.  On the other hand, it is also very productive for us to keep a 
creatively open mind when we hear about new ideas that sound somewhat 'out 
of the box'.

G.


Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center,   (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
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were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who 
questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
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Even if they don't have any speech or braille users as engineers, I would 
think they could find a host of volunteer beta testers right here on this 
list.

I really wish they would ask us about ideas instead of telling us their 
ideas, after all we are the users.
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Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] geewiz improvements


> The geewiz tools they seem to like in engineering are the kind people 
with 
> sight enjoy. They do not seem to realize that tool bars often get in the 

> way of our speech since they have to run as background and eat up 
> resources.
>
> Are there any blind (I mean no ability to read screen by seeing it) 
> engineers working for bookshare?
>
> I recently got a lot of messages from the gwmicro list talking about how 

> messy and inconventient various toolbars make their systems. I am going 
to 
> forward them to Lisa.
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