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Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user? I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is a
by jashmenn 16y ago
Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user?
I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?"
Who is this man and what is his setup?
UPDATE:
His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html
Anyone else have more info?
- xtacy 16y agoHe works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.) http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all&aw=146&ao=DOCDISRT&yr=1994 http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all...
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoApparently he created Emacspeak.
- jashmenn 16y agoRight, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoWith a damned good memory.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoAlso, a lot of early blind computer users liked ed(1) and other console-based editors. One even wrote a browser (with JavaScript support!) with an ed-like interface: http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/ http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/