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In article <SAAF.89Aug21130332@joker.optics.rochester.edu> 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?

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>* Len Saaf,  The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester,  Rochester, NY *
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-ajw


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