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# Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspective
Arkadiusz (Nuno) - <https://swietnicki.dev>

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Emacs is a tool that is extremely suitable to be operated by a fully
blind person. In this talk I would like to demonstrate one of its
strongest features, which is audio font locking. Using this mechanism
the user can get information in two dimensions, that is: "Information
snippet" as well as its metadata, carried by the font. In this talk, I
would like to briefly compare how blind people retrieve information
versus how the sighted do it, then briefly compare Emacs to other
traditional tools. At the end I am going to showcase a couple of
practical points: messages management with Telega, file navigation with
Dired and retrieving contact data with BBDB, all while using only speech
and sounds.

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