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Imagine you are disabled and only have the use of one finger.
How do you press "Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V"?
Stickykeys allows you to use your one functioning finger to press Ctrl then release it, then press C and release it, and you'll have done the equivalent of pressing both at the same time.
So a disabled person should be expected to carry a programmable keyboard with them in case they ever encounter a computer in public they want to use? You think a person that has a disability that may only give them one functioning finger should be able to easily plug in a programmable keyboard to a public computer? What if that "one figure functional" isn't even a finger and instead a stick they use with their mouth to type? How easy will it be for them to plug in a custom keyboard they carry?
Should a wheelchair bound disabled person also be expected to carry a wheelchair ramp in case there isn't one installed on a building where they might need to enter?
WHICH individual key sequences? The point of building this into the OS is that any application developer can write an application and know that the operator has full use of the keyboard. If the application developer includes some non-standard multi-key keystroke, the OS can still handle it for the operator with Stickykeys. What you're suggesting is that the disabled person be burdened with programming in each sequence custom in their own keyboard.
Why are you advocating that the disabled should be burdened? What is so horrible about Stickykeys to you that the disabled people should have to go without? If it bothers you so much on your PC, why don't you just disable Stickykeys in a Group Policy?
Wow, what a disproportionate and oddly vicious response to a very innocuous suggestion.
Nowhere in my comment did I suggest that sticky keys simply shouldn't exist. I was specifically responding to the OP talking about Ctrl-C/V and suggesting that a programmable keyboard would be a better solution for that, since you can turn 7 keystrokes into 1, since I expect that reducing the number of keystrokes one has to type is probably pretty valuable for someone in this situation. There are a lot of standard keybinds in an OS that could be handled this way. Obviously you can't do this for every keybinds in existence. But again, the OP was talking about standard OS keybinds. Admittedly, I forgot sticky keys are a toggle, so it's not as many keystrokes after the first time, but still, there are common key sequences that would be more challenging to hit, like
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
.If someone is trying to use a public computer, by all means, use sticky keys. Again, I never said it shouldn't exist or people should never use it. I was pretty obviously talking about the normal case: using a workstation/laptop at work/home. It's kind of implied when referring to an external keyboard, since you don't usually bring those places. Don't really know why you're talking about public computers.
The rest of your weirdly personal attacks are all against a strawman you've constructed, so I don't really need to address them.
Your post was this:
Your post was one single sentence and I absolutely came away with the idea that you were suggesting that StickyKeys shouldn't exist because you found it a bother. With the responses from others I wasn't alone in my reading of your comment.
It wasn't obvious at all.
You skipped three or four different steps to communicate to the audience about your intent. With your extra explanation, I see where you're coming from where you were focusing on solutioning for one specific example given for a use case of StickyKeys. However, your solutioning was too narrow in assuming the requirements included the disabled operator would only be using hardware they control 100%. There are many times that isn't the case, such as public computers at a public library, computers in a business center at a hotel, or various kiosk-based computers businesses use to collect input for scheduling or surveys. In those cases, the operator doesn't control the hardware at all.