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In the 1980s I had a girlfriend whose father was completely blind and he was a programmer. I don’t know what language(s) he worked in (what was available in the
by irrational 3y ago
In the 1980s I had a girlfriend whose father was completely blind and he was a programmer. I don’t know what language(s) he worked in (what was available in the 1980s? C, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL, uh…) and it didn’t occur to me to ask since I didn’t knowing about computers back then. I have thought many times since that it must have been harder for him with the technology restrictions of the 1980s versus today. Just documentation would be hard. No www to look things up. Even up to the early 2000s we were still using physical books for documentation. Was there any digitized documentation in the 1980s?
- defrost 3y agoOr easier - I worked with a few blind people in the 1980s. Recall that everything was a text based interface back in the day, there were no widespread GUI's and hyper graphic interactive mobile interfaces. There were simple text to speech interfaces, not great, but they were coming along - and there were "braille boards" - that converted screen text to a strip of braille via raised pins. Ponder that and ask yourself which age of technology was harder for blind people to navigate then Vs now. It's easier now to build a good blind interface, but there is a vast amount of interfaces out there that are a nightmare for the unsighted with no consideration given to access.