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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:52:23AM -0500, Bob Gorman wrote: > > <OT> > > > > I was eyeing my keyboard the other day, lamenting it's layout. I then > > started reviewing how the keys are labeled, and noticed that every key > > has a label, except the space bar. I am surprised as an unlabeled key > > must violate some ISO, Usability or Disability standard. > > > > Does anyone have any insight into this phenomenon? Sure it's labelled. The whole thing has a space on the top of it. I'm guessing the pragmatic reason is that the spacebar is used so much that the paint would war out much faster than the rest of the keys anyway. > I once saw an "Employees must wash hands" sign in a public restroom with > braille included. It was in the middle of a wall far from anything else > (sinks, towels and such). A blind user would have had to spend the > better part of a day looking for it. I suspect braille on the space key > would be equally useful :-). Any braille person who couldn't tell which was the space key by its shape is not capable of typing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD DK KD Saturday and Sunday: I seem to recall what sleep is in an DKK D intellectual sense, but nothing practical comes of it. DK KD Howie Lyhte DDDD
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