- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:40:55 -0500 (EST)
- To: <liddy.nevile@motile.net>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Oh cool. It is nice to know people have thought of this. Two questions: Have you looked into how strong handedness really is? I write or use a stylus with my left hand, but mostly use a mouse with my right hand. (I can use a mouse left-handed, but don't much as it aggravates my overuse problems) Do you have specific examples of where the problems are? One that I noticed is positioning of scrollbars. Systems like X have always allowed you to set the scrollbars to the other side (so you can see what you are scrolling) but I can't figure out if that is possible on my palmtop which is currently running windows. Drawing programs tend to allow for floating palettes, which I realise is a handy feature... cheers Chaals On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 liddy.nevile@motile.net wrote: > >well, in our work on user preferences, we are certainly including handedness as a >relevant factor. >BTW, "our" here means the IMS definition of user preferences but we hope that as >this work is based on other established requirements and experiences, our >preferences will be useful to others. >Liddy > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe ------------ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia fax(fr): +33 4 92 38 78 22 W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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