[nfbcs] Inaccessible training, again

[Mike Jolls]

I experiemented with the ribbion ... and as I recall ... what I found was
that every ribbon option had a unique shortcut-key sequence.  Therefore, if
you worked with the ribbon enough, and memorized the shortcuts, you could
access every option (at least to the extent I explored) through a shortcut
key.  My understanding is that the old menu style which had hotkeys allowed
the same type of shortcuts.  However, there were some menu options that did
NOT have shortcuts assigned to them.  If I'm right, that every ribbon bar
option had a different hot key combination, then adoption of the ribbon keys
would overcome this "no shortcut on certain menu option" shortcoming.  Then,
if you had shortcut keys on every option, it would simply be a matter of
putting in the time and learning them.

If that's the case, where's the problem with the ribbon?  Yes, it's new.
Yes, it's change.  But if every option had a shortcut, isn't that what we
were looking for?

Comments appreciated.


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joseph C.
Lininger
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 3:56 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Inaccessible training, again

This is not exactly the same thing, although it is related. It has to do
with those ribbon bars they are putting on newer applications. I find the
trend interesting in a lot of ways. Blind folks sometimes find those things
confusing. Here's the thing though; so do sighted folks. I have met one,
count them, one person who actually likes the new ribbon bars. 
Most people I know, blind and sighted alike, prefer the older style menu
bars because they make it easier to find a particular function. I still hear
people complaining about it in office specifically, years after the first
version with the ribbon bars (2007) was released. The point is, sometimes a
"new look" or a "more visually appealing interface" is actually worse for
everyone.
Joe

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