OT: Accessibility {WAS: "Re: contemporary XT software?"}

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: visually impaired worker who was given a sort of camera-with-CRT setup for reading manuals and such (remember that back then, everything was on paper and little else). The other was a blind programmer; he read output punched into cards. Ah, CCTV readers, they still are still around. Although of late, they re tending to be digital based, as opposed to analog, this has a few consequences. First, its much easier to play with the video signal, i.e. You can change colour modes, change contrast settings. But, with digitization, some companies have resorted to being cheap, and instead of magnifying the image with glass, they just use digital zoom. Although some of the digital ones are alright, I know one company produces a tiny little portable reader, costs three hundred CAD and government support programs won't cover it, but they are nice. (I don't really need one so I didn't spring for one, I have friends that did and they say its handy.) Neat anecdote about the blind programmer. I don't have anything nearly as interesting. Except that back in December I had to write a programming final at my university. For reasons only Microsoft and AiSquared can comprehend, ZoomText refused to get along with Visual Studio. So I ended up writing an entire programming final without even reading a line of code I wrote. The amazing thing is I ended up with a ninety-six as my mark on the final. (Compare to the sighted students averaging low seventies and high sixties. Then again most of the people who were in this section of the course weren't programmers by hobby.) Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.