[gui-talk] My "technophobe" comment fell a bit short...

[Loy]

it was designed for everyone to be able to use. There are a lot of older people and people with dexterity problem that need the larger cartridge.  many of these would not be able to use the regular USB drives.

From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] My "technophobe" comment fell a bit short...


...of accuracy. Simply because I just plain forgot about what must be 
thousands upon thousands of blind people in America who, either because of 
financial constraints that would have applied in their families and 
communities regardless of their blindness, and others nearly impoverished 
for other reasons besides, not everybody out there who's fortunate enough to 
have been hooked up with NLS talking books has a computer and spends their 
days emailing and downloading and so forth. Of course cartridges that 
resembled the familiar audiocassette would be the right thing, if for no 
other reason. I got that syntax all backward, but I mean, even if it were 
only for the sake of people without computers, that would be a good enough 
reason for the cartridge idea. And of course there are people with 
computers, sometimes reasonably well off, who simply don't want to do all 
that downloading business. Yadda yadda. I just wasn't thinking. Hitting self 
on head.


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