Hi Phil.

11-Feb-03 07:13:00, Phil Marlowe wrote to Charles Angelich

 >> It's called W31 and will execute on a '386 with as little as 4 meg
 >> of memory. Then use Wordpad and larger fonts.

 PM> Not sure exactly what you have in mind here. In general Windows
 PM> unfortunately is a major stumbling block here. While it may work
 PM> for a very few it won't for the huge majority. A few problems --
 PM> always remembering that these are low vision people who will be
 PM> using it (some of whom are legally blind) and many not even
 PM> familiar with computers. 1. I myself can barely make out some of
 PM> the miniscule type in Windows, so when these low vision folk come
 PM> to a dialog box or need to invoke help or whatever, and they
 PM> encounter what is for them literally unreadable type, they are
 PM> forced to give up.

I'm sure it's possible by editing win.ini (or the registry etc) to make
windows use larger fonts for everything.

 PM> 2. They hate the mouse.

the pointer is too small etc... fair enough, I do too, windows can be
operated by keyboard only  (but it's not easy to use that way)

 PM> All in all Windows is a
 PM> major frustration to them. Here's an example of what would be a
 PM> =mild= attitude to Windows here.  Quoting: "Utterly useless,
 PM> eyesores, DOS programs are far, better. No useles scroll bars,
 PM> tool bars, clutter, buttons, junk, eye hurting fonts. I played for
 PM> months with these cretinous programs trying to make them work for
 PM> me, but kept going back to DOS...."

I can picture them mouse in one hand magnifier in the other searching for
the pointer....

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