[Menvi-discuss] piano methods

[Stephanie Pieck]

And when "training" consists of someone saying that this is how the program
is "supposed" to work ... and I've found that the best trainers are blind
people who actually use the stuff, but there aren't as many of those around
either!

When did it become "essential" to have a thousand choices for everything? It
just overwhelms people. I mean, go try shopping for plain old toothpaste!
Now everything is either doing sixteen things other than cleaning your
teeth, or its in some weird formulation--gel? When did paste become a
problem?!

With that, I will now withdraw from this discussion before I put my foot
even deeper into it!

Stephanie Pieck
 

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Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 12:03 AM
To: David Goldstein - Resource Center; This is for discussing music and
braille literacy; This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] piano methods

David, 

No one could have said it better. 

>From a geezer to a "crumudgeon," bravo for the truth! 

As technology grows out of control, and into a buzz-word, the landfills are
bursting with our castoffs, while the "green" myth grows like a science
fiction monster.

Richard
 


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>From: David Goldstein - Resource Center <info2 at blindmusicstudent.org>
>Sent: Jun 6, 2014 12:46 PM
>To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
><menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
>Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] piano methods
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>This is a curmudgeon talking. I would say, yes, tings were wonderful 
>thirty years ago.  Not just because copy a:*.* c:\whatever\ /a was so 
>crystal clear and obvious <smile> and always did what it was supposed 
>to (barring user error), but because people had reasonable expectations 
>for computers.  They were still machines, that only people used who 
>understood what they did, and alternatives were tolerated.  Then DOS 
>became more programmers started thinking GUI was cool, and certain 
>Windows programs became easier to use than the DOS GUI's.  There was a 
>long delay getting Windows screen readers for 3.1, and then the delay 
>started again for NT and 95.  I didn't try using MS-Word until 1998, so 
>I don't know what the first version was like.  I could almost suspect 
>it would have been usable, because people's expectations were lower and 
>there were fewer features to get in the way.  In the PC world, I think 
>things were more accessible ten years ago than they are now--again, 
>because there were fewer features and fewer choices given for the way 
>something could be done.  There wasn't as much awareness ten years ago 
>about the importance of accessibility, but now that it's assumed 
>anything can be usable if accessibility guidelines are followed, the 
>screen reader user is expected to jump through more hoops and keep up.  
>If the program is too confusing to be used efficiently or at all, we 
>users are chastised for not having enough training.  People don't have
enough training, but I see things getting more complicated and less
accommodating.
>David
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