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I don't have a visual disability, and don't really have experience with accessibility features for the blind. However, in case it's helpful, I can tell you that
by jolmg 7y ago
I don't have a visual disability, and don't really have experience with accessibility features for the blind. However, in case it's helpful, I can tell you that I'm very productive with the keyboard and linux terminals, and it seems to me that terminals would be an ideal user interface to use for the blind. It's like a chat window where you're conversing with your computer. I imagine it shouldn't be that hard to modify or extend a terminal so it passes all its output through a text-to-speech program. This would work best with CLI programs, but I imagine it would also be somewhat fine with TUI programs. I think both `ed` and `ex` are fine CLI text editors, for example. Here's a little showcase I did on `ed` on a StackExchange question a while back:
https://askubuntu.com/a/954841/607795 https://askubuntu.com/a/954841/607795
It might look a little confusing. By default, ed doesn't have a prompt for user input and its error messages are limited to "?". However, more helpful error messages can be activated with the command `H` and a prompt can be set with `-p`. `ex` is an improved version of `ed`, and comes with a prompt and more helpful error messages by default.
I've been wanting to try making that terminal configuration partly just for kicks and partly to not strain my eyes so much and work with my eyes closed, but this is pretty low on my priorities list. This would be my first attempt if I ever start to go blind, though.