From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40198E76.9090008@linuxlink.com> From: "Michael H. Collins" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031209 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:51:34 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c58249bc-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. > > -- -- > > Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles > 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com > > Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux > 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org > > James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com > > > -- Michael H. Collins Admiral, Penguinista Navy http://linuxlink.com http://www.gracklenews.com/