It's not as far fetched as you seem to imagine. There's emacspeak[1], which bills itself as "the complete audio desktop". I recall reading that one of the most prolific committers to emacs itself was blind.

And if you think about it, emacs is perfectly reasonable:
* it's modeless, so there's no need to indicate at all times which mode you're in
* there's no visual layout of GUIs and menus to struggle through
* the entire program is available to you without needing a mouse, and plenty of documentation on how to do so
* there's plugins to do nearly everything

[1] http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jack <quiet_celt@yahoo.com> 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@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 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 <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


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