On Nov 27, 7:59=A0pm, "Nicole Massey"  wrote:   
   > "StarFuryG7"  wrote in message   
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   > On Nov 24, 8:48 pm, "John W. Kennedy"    
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   > > On Nov 23, 2:41 pm, deneb...@deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim) wrote:   
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   > > > In article   
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   > > > StarFuryG7  wrote:   
   > > > >On Nov 8, 9:14 pm, "Nicole Massey"  wrote:   
   > > > >One of the things that's   
   > > > >always bothered me about "Covert Affairs" is that one of the main   
   > > > >characters is supposed to be something of a computer whiz even thoug=   
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   > > > >he's blind, which I've found to be incredibly unrealistic.   
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   > > > She's not the first person. Software engineering/computer   
   > > > administration is one of the traditional things a non-sited person ca=   
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   > > > do really well. Of course in these days of GUIs its a bit harder.   
   > > > Plain text helps I would imagine.   
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   > > Back in the old days, IBM mainframe provisions for blind users were   
   > > off-the-shelf options, such as braille adaptors for standard printers.   
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   > > But modern GUI frameworks do a pretty good job; text-to-speech is   
   > > standard on Mac OS X (and iOS, too), and if Windows doesn't have it,   
   > > well, shame on them. Of course, an individual app developer can screw   
   > > it up, but most government departments would never pass software that   
   > > did that.   
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   > What you people seem to be missing here, since none of you appear to   
   > be viewers of the show I mentioned, is that the character I referenced   
   > has to move fast, sometimes often, and that the lives of agents out n   
   > the field depend on his getting things done as quickly as possible. It   
   > seems to me that as a person who's blind, he's probably not the best   
   > qualified for that kind of a position.   
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   > You'd be surprised how fast a blind person can move about and do things i=   
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   > an environment in which he or she has control of the space. Of course I   
   > can't comment on the show, as I've not heard of it, much less seen it or   
   > more accurately listened to it.   
   > But since you said nothing about needs for mobility in your first post,   
   > instead just commenting on the character being a computer whiz, we had no   
   > indication of any need to be able to move around, did we? Please put the   
   > goalposts back where you found them.   
      
   It's on USA Network, one of their many character-oriented light   
   dramas. It stars Piper Pirabo as a novice CIA agent, and Christopher   
   Gorham as her blind, computer-whiz handler (entirely realistic) who   
   occasionally goes into the field, and, yes, when he does that, things   
   do sometimes get a little unrealistic -- but what blind TV hero   
   doesn't have that failing? (On the other hand, a lifetime ago, I knew   
   Harry Krents, who could do some pretty incredible things when he   
   wanted to, and he usually did.) It's between seasons right now (like   
   most USA-Network shows, it runs multiple short seasons per year), and   
   I don't know whether the show has a descriptive track -- being action-   
   oriented, it's probably impossible to follow it without one.   
   --- SBBSecho 2.20-Win32   
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