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Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop

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"Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Chuckle, but of course i am stuck with just a few readers that 
> screenreaders work with. The main issue for me is that of the serial 
> access and poor ways to edit the quoted text in screenreaders as well. 
> its really not easy when no mouse is used. Many can just run down with 
> the mouse highlighting lines as they go, etc, and can see when the 
> reply is coming up when scrolling. Blind have to listen to all the 
> quotes, or cursor up and down to find the bit burried in quotes that 
> is new to them.
> Its a totally different ethos. Imagine the mouse had not been invented 
> and your screen only had a couple of lines.
> Brian

If you are registered blind then I am sure that editing would be very 
different. I guess that it's more about telling where you are in the 
text than the absence of the mouse per se. I don't use the mouse a lot. 
In fact, I think I do all my navigating around and editing of Usenet 
posts with the keyboard. But then it's easy for me to see the context 
and where the cursor is, etc. (There is a key combination that will send 
a post but I deliberately don't use it. It's too easy to send a post 
before being ready. Sending is the one thing I stick to using the mouse 
for.)

When you mentioned having only a couple of screen lines it reminded me 
of a computer from yesteryear. I had to think for a bit to work out 
which one it was but then remembered: the NewBrain:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundy_NewBrain

It had a Z80 processor, IIRC a 2-line display, and was one of the first 
machines to run from internal batteries. That portability was quite a 
big advance at the time. It could be connected to a monitor and then 
would render a much bigger screen. The integrated display was just for 
working on the move.

James

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No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 11:19 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:00 +0000
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-07 07:58 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:37 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-08 07:19 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:20 +0200
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:33 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:44 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:29 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:34 +0100
          Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-09 11:54 +0100
            Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:55 +0100
              Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2015-09-13 17:46 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:38 +0200
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:40 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-10 09:23 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 16:16 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-19 19:41 +0000

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