From: "John W. Kennedy" 

On Nov 27, 7:59 pm, "Nicole Massey"  wrote:
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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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> > > <1535d503-dfce-4694-94c5-846c8c16c...@b12g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
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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 though
> > > >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 can
> > > 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 in
> 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.


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