[Nfb-science] Magnified emacs + emacspeak

Tue Feb 23 16:45:21 UTC 2016

This is a great question.  You may also want to post this on the NFB Computer Science list serve.  That group has many individuals who know and use technology thoroughly and frequently.
Heidi

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From: Karthik Balasubramanian via Nfb-science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
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Subject: [Nfb-science] Magnified emacs + emacspeak

Hello all,I'm a PhD student and have Stargardt's. Over the past 10 years, I've beentrying out different magnification and screenreader setups on both Windowsand OS X and I think I've settled on a combination of magnified emacs (Ilike the potential for a totally uncluttered large font computingexperience for coding and context) and emacspeak (I like the potential tolisten to content with a significant amount of text). Does anyone on thelist use this setup? I've been slowly learning emacs and emacspeak on myMac.The first thing I'm going to try to transition completely to emacs/peak isemail. I have all of my email forwarded to gmail, so I'm just trying to getan email client that basically replicates the web interface of gmail. Doyou or anyone you know use emacs/peak for your email? I've been trying toget Gnus to work but I keep running into some issues. A few things I can'tfigure out how to do (because I'm a complete beginner!):* Open inbox directly (rather than needing to select from list of groups)* Have sorting like gmail (chronologically, with most recent at top)* The inbox message list having truncated fields to maximize use of limitedmagnified real estate (e.g. 23-Feb FromField(2) Emacs Ques)* Conversation view (may not be possible)* Offline downloading of only select groups for messages for a certainduration (e.g. for the past year)Eventually, I'd love to migrate other computing tasks, such as mycalendaring from the Google Calendar webapp to org-mode and accessinggeneral web content (e.g Wikipedia) from Chrome to eww. Would love to getin touch with anyone who's been down this path before!Thank you!KarthikOn Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:00 AM, <nfb-science-request at nfbnet.org> wrote:> Send Nfb-science mailing list submissions to>         nfb-science at nfbnet.org>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit>         http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-science_nfbnet.org> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to>         nfb-science-request at nfbnet.org>> You can reach the person managing the list at>         nfb-science-owner at nfbnet.org>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific> than "Re: Contents of Nfb-science digest...">>> Today's Topics:>>    1. This week on Eyes On Success: Matching Blind Runners      and>       Sighted Guides (BlueSkies11)>    2. 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Hosts> Nancy and Peter Torpey speak with Kyle Robidoux from United In Stride which> maintains an on-line database of blind or visually impaired runners and> volunteer sighted guides all over North America.>>>> The audio and show notes for this episode can be found at:>> www.EyesOnSuccess.net <http://www.EyesOnSuccess.net>>>>> You can also find the show on iTunes or use the following URL in your> podcatching program:>> www.EyesOnSuccess.net/eos_podcast <> http://www.EyesOnSuccess.net/eos_podcast>>>>>>>> ------------------------------>> Message: 2> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:39:56 -0700> From: annajee82 at gmail.com> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org, nfb-science at nfbnet.org,       Gary Lee via>         Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>> Subject: [Nfb-science] APH TALKING GRAPHING CALCULATOR> Message-ID: <27F0B23F-2678-45B9-AB32-929B5CB22CE5 at gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=us-ascii>> Hi,> I have the TI 84 plus talking graphing calculator.  I have had it for a> year and so, and works well. I did not use it for a few months, and now> when I started using it again, it will not talk.  It works fine other than> that.> I have tried replacing the batteries, and charging it up completely. Does> anyone have any suggestions of what might be the problem?>> Thanks!>> Anna E Givens>>>>> ------------------------------>> Subject: Digest Footer>> _______________________________________________> Nfb-science mailing list> Nfb-science at nfbnet.org> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-science_nfbnet.org>>> ------------------------------>> End of Nfb-science Digest, Vol 115, Issue 4> *******************************************>-- Karthik Balasubramanian+1 202 684 6252 (US - Google Voice)kartbala (Google Hangouts/Skype)¡Sí, se puede!--_______________________________________________Nfb-science mailing listNfb-science at nfbnet.orghttp://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-science_nfbnet.orgTo unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfb-science:http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-science_nfbnet.org/pnwthorsen%40aol.com