Re: WYSIWYG [OT?] :: User Experience (Was: Layout Tables vs. Style Sheets)..

Thank you and AMEN to that, Cindy Sue 
And thank you for speaking for all of us who are in touch with the code we use... 


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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Cindy Sue Causey" <butterflybytes@gmail.com>
To: cdwise@wiserways.com
Sent: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:28:46 -0400
Subject: WYSIWYG [OT?] :: User Experience (Was: Layout Tables vs. Style Sheets)..

> On 10/7/08, Cheryl D Wise <cdwise@wiserways.com> wrote:
> >
> > Many professionals who create web standards based sites use Dreamweaver,
> > Expression, TopStyle and many other editors. Not one I know uses Notepad
> > because they want color coding, syntax highlighting and code snippets.
> 
> I do, I do.. :))
> 
> **ONLY** use very basic text editors like Notepad, Wordpad, Editpad..
> Doesn't matter what it is for.. For the cognitive reasons that I
> occasionally get the chance to toss into the mix out here at W3C..
> 
> The "colorized" feature I saw referred to is horribly distracting..
> Almost as though it was something in constant motion with respect to
> quantifying its level of distractability.. For whatever (cognitive ?)
> reason, the eye-to-Brain translation simply does not function for 
> me.. It's pretty.. Just not effective.. :)
> 
> And for some reason WYSIWYGs are not my type of Brain activity
> friendly *AT ALL*, either.. But don't ask why.. It's just how it is..
> 
> No word strong enough to explain the frustration of programs that 
> keep trying to autocomplete, either.. Most of the time those have a 
> somewhat readily available toggle switch to access..
> 
> Whenever I encounter (the frustration of) autocomplete, I imagine my
> friends with visual impairments or dexterity-related disabilities
> trying to use the same.. I regularly consciously hope that those who
> create such program features keep readily-accessed, alternative
> accommodations in high priority consideration for my friends..
> 
> As long as I've mentioned autocomplete, there are those rare gems 
> that change the code behind my back after I've saved files.. 
> Frontpage 2003 and I went round and round over my style sheets just 
> for that reason not long ago.. Never did find THAT off toggle.. I 
> needed the code set up a certain way for my Mind to work with it,
>  and Frontpage unfortunately had its own ideas, albeit and granted,
>  much more compact.. :GRIN:
> 
> To take it slightly further.. The [stairstep] method that is used for
> coding..? The Mind is not able to process that, either.. Go figure.. 
> I can pretty much whip right through a straight line of [code].. Am not
> able to, well, let's call it that I experience *EXTREME* difficulty
> wading through the much cleaner looking blocks, snippets..
> 
> For what it's worth, I know "a number" of people like me out here,
> too.. I run into them on various disability accessibility boards..
> They are "professional" developers, designers, what-have-you.. :)
> 
> Sooo.. Please never say never.. Definitely no such thing as "no one
> does" or "everyone does" in the experience of this keyboard, for
> sure.. People are wearing all KINDS of different Shoes based on their
> lot in Life out here across the WWW..
> 
> Cindy Sue :)
> 
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