Contents tagged with Accessibility
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Balloon Timeout and Notification Duration
Today I was reading a new post on one of my favorite blogs, The Old New Thing by longtime Microsoft developer Raymond Chen. I got to know Raymond in the waning days of 1994 when we were working on "Chicago", the codename for what would become Windows 95. I was a rookie Program Manager for this new thing called "accessibility" and he was the go-to developer for just about anything in the guts of Windows.
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Apple Mouse Marks Mighty Change
Various pundits want to proclaim Apple's new multi-button mouse as a major departure and admission that clean design (in the form of a one-button can't be screwed up manner) isn't always acceptable to the consumer.
Recall that the original Macintosh keyboard did not have cursor keys. The original vision was to have the mouse perform all functions, while the keyboard was solely for text input. Steve Jobs and Macintosh team wanted to force people into using the mouse for all operations, even scrolling pages of text.
After several months, Apple realized their folly and made a keyboard with a number pad and cursor keys. I don't know if that was introduced along with the "Fat Mac" in October 1984 or was slipstreamed into the Macintosh production line. I know that it hard to get one of those original keyboards. I am looking for one by the way!
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Microsoft vs. Slashdot
Is anyone else getting sick of the anti-Microsoft bent Slashdot has? For years I avoided the site because of it's slated, often fact free view towards Microsoft, Windows, etc. A year ago however, I subscribed to their daily news summary and have found most of the stories interesting.
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Copy message box text to the clipboard
Ever get a error message and need to write it down? Particular one with an obscure error number like 0x80040e09? Starting with Windows 2000, you can copy the entire contents of a message box to the clipboard by pressing CTRL+C.
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CSUN 2004
The CSUN Conference on Disabilities, kicks off today at the LAX Marriot for its 19th year. This is the yearly event that people working on enabling technology attend. It’s a great place to share what you’ve been doing with not only your peers, but those who will benefit directly. From 1990 through 1994 I attended this conference as a representative of Henter-Joyce (now Freedom Scientific) as developer of the JAWS screen reader. Starting in 1995 through 1999, I represented Microsoft as a Program Manager for various projects, including accessibility to Windows, and Internet Explorer, and Active Accessibility.
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History of keyboard access in Windows
This is a response to a posting on the Windows Off-Topic Tech mailing list concerning keyboard access to the taskbar...
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Keyboard access to the Windows taskbar
[Edited 2011-03-31 to fix a typo. Also note that WIN+T in Windows Vista/Windows 7 will set focus to the first taskbar item]
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Resize all columns in detail view
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Windows is CTRL+NUMPAD+Plus.