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@googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Help for a blind friend
To: "Billy Crook" <billycrook@gmail.com>
Cc: "Haworth, Michael A." <Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com>, "KCLUG (E-mail)" <kclug@kclug.org>
Date: Tuesday,
June 21, 2011, 1:48 PMI 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 <billycrook@gmail.com> 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 |