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Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:03:24 +0000
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Martin C.Atkins wrote:
> I've also helped a student who used a VersaBraille.
> It was very good, and I thought rather more successful
> than speech synthesis, since it allows some degree
> of 'random access' to the 'screen'.

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.