I don't know I used to be in that position. I started with MSDos 5 and telnet
2000 which gave me access to linux early on. I also have used the early unix
screen reader cards. I learned to live with Lynx and pine before ever touching
a GUI. I never even started a GUI until windows 98 second service pack. I
used ASAP and Speakup and all command line tools. I finally switched to
Windows 98 with Jaws because I wanted to use IE because Lynx was no longer
doing things I needed it to do. Now of course back then everything was not web
based either. There was this terrible time when the web was just entertainment
and not tools. I had a hard time switching from command line to GUI and still
find the GUI slow for most tasks. My wife always teased me for never wanting
to change. Even with all that I would not want to go through what these folks
do to use lynx now days.
Ken
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@Zachary: On my desktop, I use a script provided by Knoppix's Adriane
accessibility suite to launch a stripped down x-session just for Firefox and
make heavy use of switching ttys to go back and forth between the GUI and the
command line.
@Kperry: I imagine much of it comes down to what one is used to. For people who
have been using links the chain, lynx the cat, or another text-mode browser
since the days when command lines were the dominant interface, it probably made
more sense for many of them to learn those external tools than to learn a whole
new paradigm by switching to the GUI. For those of us whose first exposure to
the Internet was via graphical web browser, what's been a gradual accumulation
of tricks for the long time text-browser user appears as a sheer climb to learn
for the new comer.
That said, I consider myself lucky that I was already progressively favoring
the command-line over GUI applications long before my vision started failing
and was already comfortable with the use of keyboard shortcuts instead of being
completely reliant on a mouse.
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