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Re: Microsoft: National Consumer Organization SHHH Awards Microsoft Top Honor (fwd)
Omer Zak writes:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, guy keren wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Omer Zak wrote:
> >
> > > Another big challenge to Linux from Micro$oft. (Besides the Office
> > > applications, that is.)
> > [rest deleted to save this space].
> >
> > yet they've not prepared software for blind people.
>
> So this is a door into which Linuxphiles can break. Start working! (And
> please don't forget also us deafies, even though our needs are in several
> cases opposite those of the blind.)
There's something called emacspeak which the blind use. It narrates
what's in the emacs buffer utilizing all sorts of mode information.
Since you can edit in emacs, telnet from emacs, web surf from emacs,
run a shell from within emacs, etc., making emacs talk gives pretty
good access.
--
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il
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