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Ameer Armaly wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi all. My name is Ameer Armaly, and
I am a blind programmer. I recently came across a reference to Netrek
from a friend who told me that it would b e nice to make it playable by
the blind through the use of stario sound and speech.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So I started researching: at a
glance, there seems to be no definitive protocol reference. If someone
could point me to one that would be great; I could then write a whole
new client with speech support. Failing that, what would be the best
client to modify for the windows operating system? Preferably, it
should use windows standard controls wherever possible so that any
changes I make are relatively clean as opposed to having to rip out the
whole UI. For example, I have seen that some clients do not present the
list of servers in an actual list box; this would have to be modified
for optimal accessibility.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Any advice you all could lend would
be appreciated.</font></div>
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If you were truly trying for an interface accessible to the blind - I
would skip the GUI altogether.<br>
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I don't see how this would work though. There's no way you could dodge
20 incoming torpedoes by sound alone.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
mark<br>
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P.S. My father is a completely blind software designer.<br>
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Mark Mielke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@mielke.cc"><mark@mielke.cc></a>
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