emacspeak

Your wish is our command... I'd argue that Emacs package maintainers care a lot about usability, in general. This extends to when they craft a package for general use. https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak "the complete audio desktop" by our blind and sight-impaired friends, for our blind and sight-impaired friends (and others who must necessarily use speech interfaces) https://github.com/pprevos/emacs-writing-studio for writers at large fountain-mode for screenwriting and playwriting https://fountain-mode.org/ https://chrismaiorana.com/emacs-guides/org-mode-syntax/ ("for writers and thinkers") markdown beautification https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/10h9jf0/beautify_mar... https://oxal.org/blog/powerful-emacs-hacks-image-markdown/ general beautification https://github.com/pretty-mode/pretty-mode etc. etc. etc. If there is a specifi

The GPL'ed 'Emacspeak' developed by T V Raman, who is blind. Actively developed since 1995. Seems quite advanced? Idk anything about it, seems to need Emacs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak Github: https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak

I can't speak for the OP. And while I'm visually impaired, I'm not totally blind, and I do my programming visually (though I often use a screen reader for other tasks). Still, I can point you at some projects by blind programmers. The largest project I know of that's written primarily by blind people is the open-source NVDA screen reader, written primarily in Python with some C++. It's on GitHub here: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda For a fairly large, and long-running, project developed primarily by a single blind programmer, check out Emacspeak, written in Emacs Lisp with some Tcl, available on GitHub here: https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak Edit: I almost forgot about brltty, a Linux console screen reader designed primarily for braille rather than speech output, written in C: https://github.com/brltty/brltty Now for a few small proj