I'm curious what assistive technologies tech-savvy SO users recommend. What tools do you use to facilitate text entry and web navigation? I'm especially interested in solutions that don't require voice-commands, since programming requires keywords that can be a pain to spell manually.
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Whatever you do, don't use Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition (demonstration coding perl) Warning: Link is to youtube and contains adult language.
Forgotten Semicolon
2008-09-22 21:53:12
Warning: 10 minutes long! I suppose that's the point.
nilihm
2008-09-22 22:10:54
that is pure GOLD :)
Xian
2008-09-22 22:10:56
I was hoping this would illustrate your "don't require voice-commands" point, nilihm.
Forgotten Semicolon
2008-09-22 22:24:35
@Forgotten Semicolon: It certainly does, thank you.
nilihm
2008-09-22 22:35:14
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It's been several years since I checked out their current state, but I would track down Voicecode, which was being developed open source for programming by voice. Spelling keywords manually is NOT necessary.
Mike Elkins
2008-09-22 22:14:23
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Whilst not strictly on topic, Scott Hanselman did an excellent podcast about Accessability in web applications, where he speaks with Saqib Shaikh a developer who works for Microsoft and who is blind. Very fascinating stuff to see (no pun intended) how visually disadvantaged people code.
Xian
2008-09-22 22:15:22
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I recently came across Dasher - a really fascinating way of 'typing' without a keyboard. What I found was the speed with which you can 'type' using just one finger!
Jon Cage
2008-09-22 22:45:57
Dasher is a good example of what I'm seeking from a text entry tool. Training Dasher on source code would be an interesting experiment.
nilihm
2008-09-22 22:49:37