Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ack From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's that thing in the top right corner?? Message-ID: <15181@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 23 Aug 89 14:36:07 GMT References: Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 36 In article saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lenny Saaf) writes: >I've just noticed a strange looking "icon" in the upper right corner >of our Macs (two Pluses and a II). It is located just to the right of >the small icon indicating the present application running under Multifinder. >It looks like a square "U." Successive hits on the shift key makes >it appear. Another shift causes a downward-pointing arrow to appear. >It sometimes appears with the "U" filled in. I thought it might be an >undoccumented feature of MS Word, but it happens in VersaTerm also. >Any clues? THat's "Easy Access", the init for the handicapped. It makes your keypad move the mouse. The Shift key turns it on and off. Now the big question I have is this: This (and the flashing apple problem) keep appearing here over and over. Is this a design flaw of Apple's, that there is something counter-intuitive in their interface, or is it the user's fault for not reading the manual? My vote is apple. If the interface is supposed to be intuitive, then things like this should be self-explanatory when they happen. Making the apple flash as an alarm clock now is a step in the right direction. Any comments? >-- >* Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY * >* Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT Radio: NV2Z * >* Internet (last resort): saaf%joker.optics.rochester.edu@vm.cc.rochester.edu * -ajw Andy J. Williams '90 | | ack@dartvax.dartmouth.edu 31 North Main Street | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | Systems Programmer Hanover NH, 03755 | You kill -9 my ppid | Kiewit Computation Center 603-643-2177 | prepare to vi | Dartmouth College