Re: [Accessibility] Why not first an IDE that recognizes speech?

[Susan Jolly]

I understand that the FSS philosophy causes a chicken-and-egg or bootstrap 
problem if the only people that can be code developers on this project have 
to use speech recognition.  But why is this the case?  Are you all against 
pair programming, for example?  I assume rms will let you speak on the 
phone.  Is Skype just free beer?

I can't be the only retired programmer who still wants to do something 
interesting.  In my case it turned out to be related to braille 
transcription (and I'm not interested in working on anything else).

It seems to me that the underlying software engineering problems and the 
paradigms haven't changed that much since I took my first programming course 
before a lot of you guys were born.  We older people may not know what an 
Ubuntu distro is or appreciate the trade-offs between client-side and 
server-side or recognize every buzzword (I'm still having a bit of trouble 
fully appreciating Ajax for example) but we aren't dumb.  Plus I'm sure I'm 
not the only older code developer planning to be around long enough to be 
eventually needing accessible software.

SusanJ