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Tue Apr 2 00:56:56 UTC 2013


extremely difficult for anyone to do if they have any form of handicap be it
visual or physical mobility.  My personal handicap comes from a repetitive
motion injury.  I should be using speech recognition to perform most system
administration type tasks.  Instead, I used a mix of techniques ranging from
having somebody else type to typing only as long as my hands allow.

Handicapped accessibility is very difficult.  It's a "hard problem" because
an able-bodied person can't make accessibility aids without the experience
of being handicapped.  By the time you are handicapped, you can't make the
aids because either your hands or your eyes don't work right.  I won't
presume to speak for the experiences of blind people.  At best, I can get a
faint insight into their experience with computers by watching their
interactions and how information is presented.

for the mobility impaired such as myself, speech recognition is a very
useful tool for writing email but it requires a very different method of
accessing and manipulating non-english information.  Conceptually, you need
to migrate from a keyboard oriented mode of operation to one where you use
higher level operations on data elements.  You no longer move up-and-down
lines or move characters but instead navigate and manipulate big chunks of
information such as entire zones or elements within the zones.

If there is someone out there who is an emacs wizard and is willing to work
with me on developing a speech recognition friendly bind editing mode,
please write.  I'd really like to make it happen.

--- eric


----- Original Message -----
From: "dreamwvr" <dreamwvr at dreamwvr.com>
To: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu>;
<comp-protocols-dns-bind at rodan.uu.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: NT vs. Unix DNS


> hi Martin,
>                actually open source does address this..
> see ..
> "blinux" a project for the "blind"
>                                                    Best Regards,
>                                        dreamwvr at dreamwvr.com
> > As a computer user and experimenter who is blind, I deal with
> > this problem all the time.  UNIX was not written for blind people, but
> > it was designed to allow for standard input and output so we can
> > string things together in ways that the original developers never even
> > dreamed of.  Without going in to long detail, suffice it to say that
> > there are many UNIX users who are blind all over the world and they
> > don't use it terribly differently than anybody else because it is so
> > well designed that the fixes are rather easy and cheap to implement.
> > There are even people working on making X windows work, but this is a
> > tall order.  The reasons for this, however, are purely technical and I
> > suspect that there will eventually be fixes that we can at least live
> nctionality to this environment.
>
> > Does one want to trust something as vital as a DNS to a
> > company with an attitude like that?
> >
> > This business of the blind access does not concern most people
> > at all.  Tomorrow, there may be some other design fault discovered
> > in which you find yourself on the short end of the stick.
> >
> > It just seems that the open-source material has far less truly
> > fatal defects in it and those that do show up are apt to be either
> > fixed or well-documented quickly.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
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