2017-08-03 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
rainbow over Chiang Mai, Thailand
(youtube) Bill Withers, “Lovely Day”
Over on their blog, fireborn has posted a whole series on dealing with Linux as a blind person. Full of trials and tribulations and workarounds, both failures and successes. Their entire world relies on aubible cues and failure mode is when everything goes silent. As someone who’s always relied on visible cues, this “audible” view of technology comes across as a distinctly alien approach. In the rare cases we do use audible cues, it’s just a generic “beep” – we don’t bother encoding any extra information when we could use pitches and sequences (ex. BIOS beep codes, Macintosh error beeps).
As a side note, check out videos of blind programmers. The “novelty”
of the situation is not the use of screen readers but the speed of the screen
readers. Which also makes me wonder if blind programmers would be happier with
ed over vi?
the day after
the day before
the month before
the season before