From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <599f06db0810200256w10d8bb36s6c8afb5f0413a03e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:56:17 +0200 From: "Gorka Guardiola" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <87prlw7y4g.fsf@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87prlw7y4g.fsf@cox.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 215190fc-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Chris Brannon wrote: > Hi there, > I'm blind, and I use Unix from the text console. I'm interested in > trying out Plan 9. It appears to be a very clean system. Are there any > blind people in the Plan 9 community? If so, I am very interested in > hearing from them. > It is a very mouse oriented system which is probably bad. By mouse oriented, I mean a lot of the user interface can only be interacted with a mouse. On the other side, acme is text oriented and rio serves files with the (text) contents of the window. Both can probably be tweaked a little so that an external program (which has yet to be written/ported) reads aloud stuff or prints things out through a Braille line, but to my knowledge this hasn't been done. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat