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> Oberon is very much in active use at ETH Zürich. We used it as one of our main operating systems. I wonder if any blind students, or other disabled people wh
by mwcampbell 4y ago
> Oberon is very much in active use at ETH Zürich. We used it as one of our main operating systems.
I wonder if any blind students, or other disabled people who need accessibility tools, had to confront the general lack of accessibility in simple, niche GUI systems such as this one. I suppose someone could have been given the assignment to extend Oberon with a screen reader or other accessibility tool, ideally without having to implement their own speech synthesizer first.
- samatman 4y agoIt seems (and this surprises me not at all) that this was addressed in 1998 in Linz, Austria: https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_Eu/conf/csun_99/session0212.html https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_Eu/conf/csun_99/sessio...
- mwcampbell 4y agoVery cool, and forgive me for not doing more research myself. Also, I should have thought of using a Braille display instead of a speech synthesizer, since for that, all they would have had to do is send commands to a device connected to a serial port. Of course, that would be more complicated now with USB, never mind Bluetooth.
- unnouinceput 4y agoYou know, serial to usb convertors (and vice-versa) do exists, and are like $5 only.
- gostsamo 4y agoCheck the prices of braille displays though.
- samatman 4y agoETH Zürich can afford them.
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