Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Light switches are usually at shoulder height next to a door. Our light
> switches are 2 metres up, on the far side of the room. People are sick
> of banging their knees on furniture while trying to grope for the light.
> The light switch isn't so much hard to use, its just in the wrong place.
> We must envisage what it is to be a person that doesn't know where the
> switch is, or have forgotten. We don't need a programmable light switch
> API, or a multi-function light remote control. Just a switch by all of
> the doors.
> (Oh, they're probably not called lights outside UK; room lamps maybe?)
Wow, the British must have shrunk a lot since my last vis-
it - here light switches are mounted not more than 105 cm
from the floor :-) (barrier-free not more than 85 cm).
I guess the problem shown by others in this thread is that
there doesn't seem to be a "usually" with regard to "\d"
equivalents either.
Tim