From: "Michael H. Collins" <mike@linuxlink.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:51:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40198E76.9090008@linuxlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0401291240161.10533-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
I have used emacspeak for years.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
http://www.teledyn.com/help/linux/Emacspeak/
Jim Choate wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>
>
>>Note that the trend to WYSIWYG editors and GUIs is
>>very disabling to the blind. At least under Unix one
>>has "ed" (or "ex" or "sam -d" or whatever) and full
>>access to a sequential text-mode command interface.
>
>
> My personal view is that the focus on GUI's as the default interface for
> OS'es has set back the technology at least 20 years. Had we not gotten
> sidetrackes I'm convinced computers would be doing a lot more than they
> are today. GUI's make real automation harder than it needs to be because
> the focus is on GUI support and not process execution.
>
> Just another example of the evils of the least common denominator approach.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 20:35 west9
2004-01-28 22:04 ` Donald Brownlee
2004-01-29 0:41 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2004-01-29 0:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 10:45 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 13:05 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-01-29 18:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:42 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 22:51 ` Michael H. Collins [this message]
2004-01-30 15:25 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 15:46 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-01-30 1:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 14:57 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 17:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:40 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 10:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-30 5:18 ` Jack Johnson
2004-01-29 0:14 ` boyd, rounin
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