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Smalltalk has been around since the 1970s, though. Given the things the community is interested in, schools, video, sound, and so on, it's odd that accessibili

Smalltalk has been around since the 1970s, though. Given the things the community is interested in, schools, video, sound, and so on, it's odd that accessibility never came up.

User23 8y ago
Most sighted persons really don't like thinking about blindness. It's not because they are bad people, it's just deeply scary and relatively uncommon. This is an area where Apple really doesn't get enough credit. VoiceOver has absolutely revolutionized blind persons' ability to interact with consumer tech. For more technically demanding applications, the Unix philosophy is inherently open to being made accessible. https://pjb.com.au/blin/ https://pjb.com.au/blin/. As an aside, I personally really enjoy accessible websites, because they focus on clear communication in the presence of a serious obstacle, rather than assaulting the visual cortex with attention grabbing nonsense. Edit: Also one could argue that ed(1)¹ is the pinnacle of accessibility. ¹https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
- mwcampbell 8y ago
  Here's a blind programmer who actually did argue, in all seriousness, that ed is the pinnacle of accessibility: http://eklhad.net/philosophy.html http://eklhad.net/philosophy.html
  - User23 8y ago
    Great read. Thanks!
    - qwerty456127 8y ago
      Isn't it fascinating how posting a seemingly-useless comment that is guaranteed to be down-voted can provoke people to post interesting things in response? :-)