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How a Completely Blind Manager - Dev Uses Emacs Every Day
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- 1 Intro
- 2 HOW DO THE BLIND USE A COMPUTER?
- 3 WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS THAT SCREEN READER USERS RUN INTO?
- 4 CAN A BLIND PERSON WHO KNOWS HOW TO CODE FIX THESE PROBLEMS?
- 5 HOW DOES THIS SITUATION AFFECT A BLIND PERSON'S PRODUCTIVITY? • Death by a million papercuts • Lack of control • Examples include IDES, JIRA, Workplace/Workchat, Trello and Google Docse
- 6 WHY DON'T WE CREATE SOFTWARE SPECIALLY FOR THE BLIND?
- 7 SO, WHAT SHOULD WE DO? • Make it easier to add accessibility to applications • Educate developers • Prioritize accessibility in companies
- 8 WHAT ABOUT EMACS? Emacs is customizable and allows developers to retrieve any kind of information.
- 9 Convey if text is bold, italicized or underlined • Play tones for different states, like when a node in org-mode is collapsed, or a checkbox in customize is unchecked • Speak indentation
- 10 WHAT IF SOMETHING IN EMACS ISN'T ACCESSIBLE? Example: org-capture
- 11 HOW ELSE DOES EMACS MAKE ME MORE PRODUCTIVE?
- 12 11.2 MANAGING TASKS, PROJECTS AND TEAM DEADLINES
- 13 11.3 MAKING OTHER APPLICATIONS ACCESSIBLE
