drivers99 mentioned in a comment[0] as reply to another thread that his blind friend used ed to do his coding, using a text-to-speech card that pronounced every

drivers99 mentioned in a comment[0] as reply to another thread that his blind friend used ed to do his coding, using a text-to-speech card that pronounced everything that appeared in the text-mode buffer of the video card. That makes me think of how easy it is to use CLI programs (like ed but not TUIs like vim or emacs) blind. All one needs to do is hookup a text-to-speech program to a terminal output, and that's it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826862