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MatthewEast

Here are my attempts at running the exercise.

Hands Free Email

I had absolutely no luck with this: I don't have any special equipment by which I can control the computer without my hands 0/10

1 finger email

This shouldn't be as difficult as it is: I have no windows key or any single button on my keyboard which I can open the menu with, so I couldn't even get started. Even if I had been able to open Evolution, I wouldn't have been able to open a new email. With two fingers I could open the menu, start evolution, and send an email, but not with one. 0/2

Conclusion: there should at least be a way to open the menu with one finger. On another laptop (with a Windows key and with a few more hotkeys) I might have had more luck here.

Mouse Only Email

This was MUCH more difficult than it should be: most importantly of all the On screen keyboard was not installed so I had to open "Add/Remove Programs", insert my password using letters assembled from the firefox homepage and pasted into gedit (Henrik pointed out this "cheat" for me), and install GOK. Ok, I thought it would be plain sailing from there, but GOK did not work when I clicked on it from the menu. So in order to send an email I would have to assemble all the letters from the firefox homepage as I did with the password.

Installation with only a mouse must be IMPOSSIBLE, and how on earth do you login?

Conclusion: GOK should be installed by default, and should work.

Eye closed email

I succeeded in sending an email, although I had to cheat quite badly. First of all, and most importantly, I (with my eyes open) setup a shortcut for starting evolution from the desktop (Ctrl and E). After that it would relatively straightfoward, I did Ctrl + N in Evolution to make a new mail, and sent a mail to Henrik (fortunately his email address was already in my contacts so evolution auto-completed it). I was quite unsure of the position of the keyboard, but for a very simple email I could do it. 3/10

Conclusion: an easy shortcut for opening evolution (my other computer has a hotkey to open it) is necessary.

Jeroen van Splunder

Here are my attempts at running the exercise.

Hands Free Email

I had absolutely no luck with this: I don't have any special equipment by which I can control the computer without my hands 0/10. (No microphone either, I don't know if that works.)

1 finger email

I can't open the menu, this should be possible with the logo button. Also, I don't know how to enable sticky keys! Help doesn't tell me this, either. After letting Wikipedia explain it to me, I tried again. I opened evolution with alt+F2, then opened a new mail with ctrl-N. Then I wanted to know the e-mail address to mail to. I don't know how to alt-tab with sticky keys! I succeeded in the end, though.

Conclusion: 1/2 points, logo/windows key should open menu

Mouse Only Email

I assumed that 'a friend' installed gok for me. Wouldn't know how to login without keyboard or password either, so I skipped that as well. Also, GOK thinks it's necessary to make a sound for _every_fucking_letter_I_type_!! Shift works very crappy, need to press shift, keep hovering over shift for a few seconds, and only then continue, and there's no way to deactivate shift when you hit it by accident.

Conclusion: 2/3 points, GOK should be worked on (beeps+shift key), alternative password system which works with mouses

Eye closed email

The text-to-speech thing isn't usefull with a Dutch installation, because it announces the text as if it were English!

Conclusion: 0/10 points, text-to-speech thing should learn Dutch.