Help for a blind friend

[jldugger at gmail.com]

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.

And if you think about it, emacs is perfectly reasonable:
* it's modeless, so there's no need to indicate at all times which mode
you're in
* there's no visual layout of GUIs and menus to struggle through
* the entire program is available to you without needing a mouse, and plenty
of documentation on how to do so
* there's plugins to do nearly everything

[1] http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Ok, so maybe, I don't actually find it "impossible" to use, just a very
> major
> nuisance,with a very large learning curve.
>
> This is a Windows user we are talking about after all, and not an old Unix
> coder.
>
> Jack
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/21/11, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: Help for a blind friend
> To: "Billy Crook" <billycrook at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Haworth, Michael A." <Michael_Haworth at pas-technologies.com>, "KCLUG
> (E-mail)" <kclug at kclug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 1:48 PM
>
>
> I have heard and would think it possible that emacs would be the best
> interface for a blind person.
> mike
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=billycrook@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> I have heard at least two blind GNU users state that they have used
> JAWS, and the switched to gnome's ORCA screen reader, and found it to
> be substantially better.  Any GNOME based distro should be fine so
>
>
>
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