Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021

• Brian Dear’s The Friendly Orange Glow
  • Brodie Lockard created amazing software on PLATO
  • Control Data Corp Homework
• [@2:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=167) Matt’s intro 
  • Deane Blazie created TotalTalk, a speaking terminal. See his 2004 interview.
  • Apple IIe computer and the Echo II speech synthesizer card.
• [@4:15](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=255) The Echo ][ sound sample 
  • Wargames computer: GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN. Listen > SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
    > Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
    > …
    > Is this a game or is it real?
    > WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
    > …
    > What’s it doing?
    > It’s learning…
    > …
    > A STRANGE GAME.
    > THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS
    > NOT TO PLAY.
• [@7:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=466) 
  • Prose 2000 sample
  • DECtalk audio sample
• [@12:14](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=734) Apple to PC 
  • Keynote Gold, Master Touch, Zoom Text
• [@14:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=893) Keynote Gold sample
  • Talking Moose. Watch a sample.
• [@17:17](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1037) GUI screen readers 
  • outSPOKEN used QuickDraw
  • Window Bridge 1992
• [@21:58](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1318) Meeting another sight impaired person on a MUD
  • pwWebSpeak
  • Emacspeak
• [@26:44](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1604) Early programming experiences 
  • Apple IIGS
• [@28:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1727) Emacspeak user base
• [@31:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1894) Things were getting better on the Windows side.. 
  • JAWS, patch parody sample
  • Microsoft Narrator
• [@36:12](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2172) Linux 
  • Speakup
  • Mixing multiple sound streams, hardware limitations
  • Slackware
  • ZipSpeak by Matthew Campbell
• [@44:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2693) Editors for the visually impaired? 
  • ed text editor
  • Edbrowse
• [@49:36](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2976) Working on accessibility (a11y) for pay 
  • FreedomBox
  • GNOME EsounD
  • KDE aRts
  • Gnopernicus
  • Orca
• [@57:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3466) 
  • Microsoft Active Accessibility
  • AT-SPI
  • CORBA, D-Bus
• [@1:03:11](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3791) Handheld devices 
  • Apple VoiceOver
  • Google TalkBack
  • iPhone Screen Recognition article
• [@1:08:09](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4089) What should software engineers know about accessibility? 
  • Use a mature UI framework!
  • Microsoft UI Automation is the successor to MSAA.
• AccessKit by today’s speaker Matt Campbell!
• [@1:12:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4354) DECtalk samples!
• [@1:15:25](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4525) One of the most important settings a blind person will want to change in their speech synthesizer is how fast it talks. 
  • JAWS parody clip
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