Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?

["Jeff R. Allen" <jra@nella.org>]

I was just playing with Inferno this weekend, and what's nice about it
is that when you are using it hosted, it is simply a process named
"emu" running in a window and talking to you in text. Your screen
reader would be able to understand it's output easily.

Inferno lets you play with the 9p protocol that shares resources
across a network, and that's really the cleanest and most attractive
parts of Plan 9. Also, Inferno gives you access to Limbo. Limbo's
support for concurrency and cross-platform execution is quite
attractive and should be compatible with a screen reader. The
"mouse-intensive" part people are talking about is the rio window
manager and the acme editor.

On the other hand, programming Limbo with only cat and sed won't be
too easy, so you'll need suggestions from people on the list for less
mousy editors. Seems unlikely that Plan 9 people have ported Emacs...
the massive cognitive dissonance would have likely created a
singularity which annihilated the programmer in question. :)

  -jeff

PS: Heh, just found this: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/emacs