Re: Blind programmers

Tim Byars (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 02:31:25 -0800

At 8:49 PM -0800 11/2/98, Joachim Feise wrote:
>Rasheed Baqai wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps things will go well for those who are "sight-impaired" because in
>> this job market, everyone is important.
>
>Did you know that Berkeley Systems (the guys with the Flying Toasters
>screensavers) started out with screen readers and screen enhancement products
>for the Mac?
>It just turned out that the screensaver, a by-product, was more profitable.

Isn't that Close View the control panel from System 5-6? The one that comes
on if you hit the space bar three times in a row. Always was fun to trigger
on someone's Mac when they weren't looking.

Tim

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