From: StarFuryG7    
      
   On Nov 24, 8:48 pm, "John W. Kennedy"    
   wrote:   
   > On Nov 23, 2:41 pm, deneb...@deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim) wrote:   
   >   
   > > In article   
   <1535d503-dfce-4694-94c5-846c8c16c...@b12g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,   
   >   
   > > 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 though   
   > > >he's blind, which I've found to be incredibly unrealistic.   
   >   
   > > She's not the first person.  Software engineering/computer   
   > > administration is one of the traditional things a non-sited person can   
   > > do really well.  Of course in these days of GUIs its a bit harder.   
   > > Plain text helps I would imagine.   
   >   
   > Back in the old days, IBM mainframe provisions for blind users were   
   > off-the-shelf options, such as braille adaptors for standard printers.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   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.   
      
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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