I feel your pain!! My dad doesn't know what a browser is, or what Firefox is. He uses Mozilla, you see. (I have no earthly idea why that's the name that stuck, but for years now, it's been Mozilla, and blank stares for Firefox.)
And when I ask him to read me the screen, he reads THE WHOLE SCREEN.
And the reason I had to go out and "look at "his computer this time? He wanted to forward a joke to his sister, and couldn't figure out how. Comcast changed its webmail interface (or he just forgot). So I drove an hour out to sit there and say, "okay, you see this row of little pictures? The single green arrow going left says Reply, and the double green arrow going left says Reply All, and next to that is a green arrow going right with no words. It's stupid that there are no words, but this one is for Forward, and that's what you click to forward an email."
On the one hand, he's incredibly computer literate for an 86-year-old, especially considering that nothing about computers has ever made any sense to him at all. But otoh, omg. I am so happy to have a shortcut!
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Date: 2013-03-07 08:22 am (UTC)And when I ask him to read me the screen, he reads THE WHOLE SCREEN.
And the reason I had to go out and "look at "his computer this time? He wanted to forward a joke to his sister, and couldn't figure out how. Comcast changed its webmail interface (or he just forgot). So I drove an hour out to sit there and say, "okay, you see this row of little pictures? The single green arrow going left says Reply, and the double green arrow going left says Reply All, and next to that is a green arrow going right with no words. It's stupid that there are no words, but this one is for Forward, and that's what you click to forward an email."
On the one hand, he's incredibly computer literate for an 86-year-old, especially considering that nothing about computers has ever made any sense to him at all. But otoh, omg. I am so happy to have a shortcut!