Questions tagged [accessibility]
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Are there Emacs tools for the visually-impaired?
I have a client, a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Chemistry, that is visually impaired. He's pretty self sufficient and he's had some success learning the content by directly reading source, when available, for most texts. He does this to read the…
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Typing quickly when Control, Alt and Esc are hard to reach
I'm very new to Emacs and I'm trying the built-in tutorial. After I went through the basics, I found it really hard to reach the Ctrl and Alt or Esc keys. I'm trying to type faster but since all the commands require these keys, I'm not able to be…
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Looking for a theme that takes medical considerations into account
As the title suggests, I am interested in an emacs theme that has been specifically designed for the good of the 24/7 hard-working programmer's eyes.
Notice that this question is not opinion-based; I am asking whether someone has developed a theme…
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Automatically toggle external display profile
Apologies I know this will seem pedestrian -- please forgive me, I'm a newbie. I have low vision, so I'd like to automatically toggle different "display profiles" based on whether there is an external display connected.
I'm looking to have the…
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Format help buffers to specific width
I'm helping a visually impaired user make viewing documentation in Emacs easier. He sets his font size such that he has about 40 columns of text in a full-screen frame with no splits (and he has configured Emacs never to split the window). At that…
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Editing subtitles or closed caption files?
I'm having trouble locating any Emacs modes supporting YouTube caption/subtitles files.
This YouTube help page details the list of file formats for subtitles and captioning supported by YouTube:
Basic file formats
SubRip (.srt)
SubViewer (.sbv or…
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Problems using ^ in calc
I'm using calc on OSX and on a spanish keyboard, and I see some problems in using ^, but this is the most annoying:
when I type this example from de calc tutorial
1: 2 2: 2 1: 8 2: 2 1: 6
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How can I view accent characters natively?
In GUI emacs 25.3.1, I have a text file with octal character codes for accents. For example I have many \212 characters which are really Š characters. If I replace-string the occurrences, it shows fine in the buffer, but if I exit and restart…
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