It's not as far fetched as you seem to imagine. There's emacspeak[1], which bills itself as "the complete audio desktop". I recall reading that one of the most prolific committers to emacs itself was blind. <br>
<br>And if you think about it, emacs is perfectly reasonable:<br>* it's modeless, so there's no need to indicate at all times which mode you're in <br>* there's no visual layout of GUIs and menus to struggle through<br>
* the entire program is available to you without needing a mouse, and plenty of documentation on how to do so<br>* there's plugins to do nearly everything<br><br>[1] <a href="http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/">http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quiet_celt@yahoo.com">quiet_celt@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">Wow, I find that one hard to believe! I'm quite sighted and find emacs impossible to use. I'd hate to see how confused a less PC literate person fared.<br>
<br>Ok, so maybe, I don't actually find it "impossible" to use, just a very major <br>nuisance,with a very large learning curve.<br><br>This is a Windows user we are talking about after all, and not an old Unix coder.<br>
<br>Jack<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 6/21/11, Mike Dupont <i><<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Mike Dupont <<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com" target="_blank">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Help for a blind friend<br>To: "Billy Crook" <<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com" target="_blank">billycrook@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: "Haworth, Michael A." <<a href="mailto:Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com" target="_blank">Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com</a>>, "KCLUG (E-mail)" <<a href="mailto:kclug@kclug.org" target="_blank">kclug@kclug.org</a>><br>
Date: Tuesday,
June 21, 2011, 1:48 PM<div class="im"><br><br><div>I have heard and would think it possible that emacs would be the best interface for a blind person.<br>mike<br><br><div>On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Billy Crook <span dir="ltr"><<a style="background-color: pink" rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=billycrook@gmail.com" target="_blank">billycrook@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have heard at least two blind GNU users state that they have used<br>
JAWS, and the switched to gnome's ORCA screen reader, and found it to<br>
be substantially better. Any GNOME based distro should be fine so</blockquote></div></div><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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