Re: Some stories
- From: Jim Dunleavy <jim.dunleavy@xxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:30:12 +0000
Hi Andreas,
In an emergency situation once or twice, when my braille terminal was
temporarily
out of action, I used a VT320 terminal in a VAX/VMS environment.
Of course, the only audio output from such a thing is the high-pitch beep
made by the ASCII BEL character.
There are several things you can do in such dire circumstances.
e.g., to find out if my DCL commands were successful, I mapped a
function key to a DCL command that would cause a beep if the previous
command
was successful, something like:
$ define /key/noecho/term pf4 "if $status then write sys$output bel"
It would be hard to do full-blown development in such an environment,
but on one occasion, when I had to make an emergency amendment
I used a DEC LA75 dot-matrix printer connected to the terminal
as a slave and read the compiler output using an Optacon.
I could tell a clean compilation by the longer time delay and the
satisfying thud as the printer produced the single "dollar prompt".
--Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 12:54 AM
Subject: Some stories
> Hello all,
>
> I have recently completed the first draft of my dissertation, which is
> on blind computer programmers and using audio to program. In it, I've
> created a special C programming environment, ran a ton of experiments,
> and written more than any human would probably want to read.
>
> At the very end of my dissertation, I thought it might be nice to
> include a section, a few paragraphs, on some "classically bad audio
> interfaces." Does anyone have any stories of interacting with a
> program, using Jaws or any other interfaces that use audio, that are
> so comically bad that they have you scratching your head?
>
> I would love to hear some stories, if folks wouldn't mind sharing.
> (The funnier the better)
>
> Just curious,
>
> Andreas
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