[Nfb-science] An intro

[John J. Boyer]

Peter,

You know me already. I'm an avid braille user and use a braille display 
for everything. However, a lot of blind people program using speech 
only. Both Jaws and Window Eyes are good. I'm a Jaws user myself. For 
Linux there is Orca and brltty. For the Mac there is VoiceOver, which is 
built into the Mac Operating system. I'm actually engaged in a big 
braille transcription development projectg, so I'm a big fan of braille. 
You should learn it if you don't know it already, but if you have 
difficulty with it don't let that stop you from programming.  To learn 
about my software development work go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com 
Even bigger braille projects are in the works. We will be doing a lot 
of our programming in Java because it seems to have better 
cross-platform accessibility with SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit).

John

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:06:54AM -0500, Peter Wolfe wrote:
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> To NFB Science list:
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>    My name is Peter, who is a junior at Auburn University. I'm
> thinking about changing my major from social science/history education
> to computer science/computer informational systems or software
> engineering. I've taken most of my core curriculum so am on here to
> find blind professions using screen readers to explain their career
> with challenges and troubleshooting and brainstorming. As I don't know
> what kind of science, I naturally thought of any science like computer
> science as opposed to natural or social science? I think this should
> be clarified even if it looks like it makes sense it's not for
> everyone. Thanks and can't wait to hear back from you.
> 
> sincerely,
> Peter
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