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> Oberon is very much in active use at ETH Zürich. We used it as one of our main operating systems.

I wonder if any blind students, or other disabled people who need accessibility tools, had to confront the general lack of accessibility in simple, niche GUI systems such as this one. I suppose someone could have been given the assignment to extend Oberon with a screen reader or other accessibility tool, ideally without having to implement their own speech synthesizer first.



It seems (and this surprises me not at all) that this was addressed in 1998 in Linz, Austria: https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_Eu/conf/csun_99/sessio...


Very cool, and forgive me for not doing more research myself. Also, I should have thought of using a Braille display instead of a speech synthesizer, since for that, all they would have had to do is send commands to a device connected to a serial port. Of course, that would be more complicated now with USB, never mind Bluetooth.


You know, serial to usb convertors (and vice-versa) do exists, and are like $5 only.


Check the prices of braille displays though.


ETH Zürich can afford them.




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