I really do think there should be a wiki or similar thing for Blindness history, and not just about tech stuff. I have no idea how to run such a thing myself, and without proper maintenance and whatnot a project like that could go horribly wrong.
This year, the full 250 hours of interviews I conducted for the BBS Documentary are going online at the Internet Archive. There’s already a collection of them up, from when I first set out to…
The screen reader JAWS was dominant for decades before upstart open source alternative NVDA came along. This is the story of the blind programmers who pioneered accessibility software
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in reply to Kara Goldfinch • • •1. 2 parters of @freedomscientific FScast on Ted Henter by @JonathanMosen https://fscast.libsyn.com/fscast-episode-104-jonathan-mosen-speaks-with-ted-henter-who-founded-henter-joyce-and-created-jaws-part-1
https://fscast.libsyn.com/fscast-episode-105-jonathan-mosen-speaks-with-ted-henter-who-founded-henter-joyce-and-created-jaws-part-2
2. hidden history of screenreaders https://www.theverge.com/23203911/screen-readers-history-blind-henter-curran-teh-nvda
3. An Oral History Interview with Ted Henter,https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/interviews-technology-pioneers/ted-henter/part-1-5-5497
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The blind programmers who created screen readers
Sheon Han (The Verge)