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Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user?

I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?"

Who is this man and what is his setup?

UPDATE:

His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak.

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html

Anyone else have more info?



He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.)

http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all...


Apparently he created Emacspeak.


Right, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?


Also, a lot of early blind computer users liked ed(1) and other console-based editors.

One even wrote a browser (with JavaScript support!) with an ed-like interface: http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/


With a damned good memory.




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