We find many Windows' softwares in market that assist the visually disabled in word-processing, web browsing and screen navigating. In the United States, Dr. Raman developed Emacspeak, which opened a path for the visually disabled Unix users to develop expertise in computer science, write application programs, and surf Internet. The present work has been motivated by his work. Voice Meadow is a voicified Meadow, multilingual Emacs running in Windows environment, and Voice Windows offers basic voicified components easily used by scripting languages such as Visual Basic Script.
Development is still in progress but essential functions have been implemented.
When DOS is used as an operating system, operations were processed by character-based interfaces. Usefulness of personal computers was widely recognized by the visually disabled through the use of screen readers such as VDM100. Students learned programming on DOS and visually disabled programmers wrote applications in Japan and elsewhere. This situation has changed when Microsoft Windows became dominant for personal computers. They were left with little choice but to live in DOS world.