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.


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