On Nov 23, 2:41=A0pm, deneb...{at}deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim) wrote:
> In article <1535d503-dfce-4694-94c5-846c8c16c...{at}b12g2000vbg.googlegroups=
.com>,
>
> StarFuryG7 =A0 wrote:
> >On Nov 8, 9:14 pm, "Nicole Massey"
 wrote:
> >One of the things that's
> >always bothered me about "Covert Affairs" is that one of the main
> >characters is supposed to be something of a computer whiz even though
> >he's blind, which I've found to be incredibly unrealistic.
>
> She's not the first person. =A0Software engineering/computer
> administration is one of the traditional things a non-sited person can
> do really well. =A0Of course in these days of GUIs its a bit harder.
> Plain text helps I would imagine.

Back in the old days, IBM mainframe provisions for blind users were
off-the-shelf options, such as braille adaptors for standard printers.

But modern GUI frameworks do a pretty good job; text-to-speech is
standard on Mac OS X (and iOS, too), and if Windows doesn't have it,
well, shame on them. Of course, an individual app developer can screw
it up, but most government departments would never pass software that
did that.
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