Re: Help for a blind friend

Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont-gM/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.kansascity
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Well in emacs you have a textual self describing system with interfaces to
all system components. What else would a blind person want? at least you can
do almost everything from inside emacs.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Jack <quiet_celt-/[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow, I find that one hard to believe! I'm quite sighted and find emacs
> impossible to use. I'd hate to see how confused a less PC literate person
> fared.
>
> Ok, so maybe, I don't actually find it "impossible" to use, just a very
> major
> nuisance,with a very large learning curve.
>
> This is a Windows user we are talking about after all, and not an old Unix
> coder.
>
> Jack
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/21/11, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont-gM/[email protected]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont-gM/[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Help for a blind friend
> To: "Billy Crook" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Haworth, Michael A." <Michael_Haworth-MpF0zXX3aryHdZQakrT3ElaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>, "KCLUG
> (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 1:48 PM
>
>
> I have heard and would think it possible that emacs would be the best
> interface for a blind person.
> mike
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Billy Crook <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> I have heard at least two blind GNU users state that they have used
> JAWS, and the switched to gnome's ORCA screen reader, and found it to
> be substantially better.  Any GNOME based distro should be fine so
>
>
>
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