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Designing an OS for Blind/Deaf Users?
Sushant Bhatia asks: "I work for a team developing technology for individuals who are blind and I have had the opportunity to use some screen reading software and while there have been leaps of progress it is still quite tedious to use, and not at all user friendly. One of my managers recently posed an interesting question for me: 'How would you design an OS from scratch that would target individuals who are blind and/or deaf?' What about inputs such as keyboards or refreshable Braille devices?"
Well, at least for BlindOS you don't have to worry about writing video drivers...
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about the OS, but for deaf/blind people, the hw platform should be a pinball machine.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Before closed captioning, sometimes on the news, they would have a guy at the bottom of the screen doing sign language during a section called "News for the Hearing Impaired". On Saturday Night Live, they made fun of this, with Garret Morris, in the role of the anchor for the "hearing impaited" would yell "OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT" when the anchor would say "Our Top Stoty Tonight"
your in a room - do you;
1 go left
2 go right
3 go straight
4 reload
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Esobofh - Currently drinking fresh mango juice.
There already exists an OS for the dumb. It's called Windows.
*rimshot*
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
I have been working on a sophisticated pattern analysis program for just that problem! For, er, blind people, that's it.
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> Unless your tech support/any other user of the machine isn't blind.
Ah, this is about finding an OS for tech support folks in India. They could be blind, because all the work is done over the phone. Spending five minutes on the phone proves they're deaf. And the quality of the solutions proves that they're dumb.
Ever since I was a young boy,
I took the support call,
From Delhi down to Bangalore,
I must have played them all.
But I ain't seen nothin' like him
In any support-cube hall,
That deaf, dumb and blind tech
Always says "re-install!"
Sits there like a statue,
He's a voicemail machine,
Please to reading from scripts,
Keeps his call queue clean,
Bullshits by intuition,
Never seen him fall,
That deaf, dumb, and blind tech
Always says "re-install!"
1. Use a device that creates a topographical image on a pad based on the screen color values. This would allow the blind user to "feel" his way around the screen. More advanced versions could allow the user to use his hands as a mouse, by accepting a certain amount of pressure as a click.
Man i dunno about that, can you imagine the stuff they would have to feel while going through their spam?
ding ding ding!
I think the blind and deaf would benefit from a preemptive scheduler in addition to a journaling filesystem.
Blue Scream Of Death for blind people.
I suppose it was wrong clicking on the link hoping for screen shots, huh?
After calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
I can't seem to find any screenshots. Has anyone seen the screenshots?
It's no secret that many of the Americans calling Indian support centers know more than the supposed "support" personal they are calling.
That's why it's perfect that these Americans have lost their Job, now they finally have the time to talk the Indians through their old job!