jojo wrote:
Must be tough to be a text-only person in a GUI world.
Not entirely. A lot of what you find in GUIs is text anyway, like most of the content of webpages and certainly any computer code! What's annoying is when people don't design things properly and they use pictures instead of text or make it impossible to get to a particular control using just the keyboard (that's actually a more common accessibility screw-up than graphical content without a textual alternative). Some interfaces are made really weirdly and don't work properly for some reason, such as VirtualBox (that
is annoying). When I first became blind I set up a Linux system with just a talking console and no graphical environment (not even an X server!), but I quickly started missing the GUI and soon set up a system with a GUI. The GUI's still good for blind users - I still prefer the way that GUI text editors work compared to console text editors, and firefox is still easier to use than a text-mode browser such as lynx.
I also have notification sounds and background music, so it's not just text!
(Slightly joking with the latter...)