But we're talking about attracting blind users, right? Shells and terminals are more natural for us than GUIs. Instructing the computer is far more intuitive than pretending that it's a two-dimensional surface with pictures on it.
Amanda On 4/27/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > According to r.d.t.prater: > # Otherwise, they’ll turn back to iOS, and Voiceover, > # which can speak Emoji and such, pretty quickly. > Not quite. I happen to know that Android and Google's speech synthesizer > can speak emojis as well, and has had such capability for some time. On > my Android devices, I do still use Google's speech synthesizer because > it's the only one so far that speaks them, so I am able to emoji with > the best, or the worst of them as it were. At this point, I still run > the older Android Espeak on my devices, as there has been no espeak-ng > update as of now. But I use Google mostly, because I feel like I'm > missing something because the newer version isn't yet available, and > even it doesn't fully support unicode yet. Does that mean that I will > give up on Espeak ever getting full unicode support, especially for > emojis? Hell no. And Emacs is far too convoluted for me to try to learn > now, especially since it hasn't changed much since the first time I > tried it many years ago, and now just getting Emacspeak to build is more > trouble than it's worth. Seriously, it's all this talk of terminals and > shells and Emacs and Vim that will drive new users away from Linux more > than the lack of emoji support in Espeak. There is this perception in > the wider world that Linux is all about these terminals and shells and > editors that try to be so much more than just editors, and that it's > only good for geeky types and server administrators. This glaring > misconception has indeed been fed by the likes of Microsoft and other > major marketing firms, who long ago relegated Linux to the data center > and continue to tell the general public that it's just not for them. But > many of us who use Linux every day also help to spread this false > perception when we can't have a user friendly discussion of desktop > Linux, because even when we install it for others, we can't seem to get > past the terminal, the shell, the editor that tries to be and do too > much, etc. Sorry, trying to get the general public at large to use Emacs > will never fly, as it just feeds that geek perception of Linux and does > nothing to make it more productive for the end user. Of course I'm not > saying that you shouldn't use Emacspeak if you got it to build and it > works for you. But I am saying that in order to debunk the myth that > Linux is somehow inferior or is only for the geekiest, we need to start > thinking more inclusively. This means thinking of the power user stuff > like the shells and terminals and supereditors as an extension of the > desktop, rather than thinking of the desktop as a necessary evil that we > need to use to browse the web. > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
