Sites You Need to Know

If you are a web publisher or a webmaster, then you might be interested in building accessible websites. Joe Clark has written a book on this topic. One of the coolest sites where you will almost certainly find an answer to any software development problem is Safari. They have thousands of books available which you can read online. You can download individual chapters or search through the whole database.
The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is one of the best object-oriented frameworks I've ever seen. I've had the pleasure to work with ACE during my time at Telekurs Financial Informations. ACE is written in C++ and unifies object-oriented and generic paradigms.
Of course, if you are a C++ programmer then you won't miss Bjarne Stroustrup's site, where you will find lots of useful information.
I find myself quite often on Apple's Developer Connection, where you can find plenty of information regarding Mac OS/X, Cocoa, Carbon and Xcode, Apple's excellent IDE.
Also very interesting are the following sites: Sun Developer Network, The Open Solaris Project and Sun Freeware.
If you belong to those who feel Linux, talk Linux, sleep Linux and dream Linux, then Gentoo Linux is just right for you.
Unix oldtimers might be interested in OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
msys is a company in Switzerland which sells OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Gentoo CD-ROMS.
Lehmans Online Bookshop has a huge collection of Linux and BSD distributions and much more.

Some Interesting Articles

Although more and more blind computer users are interested in Mac OS/X and its built-in Screen Reader called VoiceOver, accessibility evangelists still claim that VoiceOver is unusable and that software developers won't support it. However, Apple does much more than others to help software developers to support accessibility in their products. Below are some articles that clearly proof Apple's efforts in this area. By the way: You will find even more Information on Apple's developer connection website.

• Enabling Accessibility in Your Cocoa Application
• Speech Synthesis Programming Guide
• Empowering Your Carbon Application with the VoiceOver Accessibility
• Going Universal: Audio Developers Catch the Wave
• Building an Open Source Universal Binary

Future Software Projects

Although TeX and LaTeX files provide instant access to mathematical texts, there are still a number of limitations that have - as far as I know - not been addressed yet. For example:

• Formulas are accessed sequentially, that means its either not easy or takes rather long to see which part or parts of a formula are really important.
• Given a long chain of computations, its impossible to jump directly to the final result or to particular intermediate results.
• Even simple formulas become relatively complex due to long control sequences and layout commands.
• Its difficult to listen to spoken TeX or LaTeX code, although it might be more effective and enjoyable to listen to mathematical texts if there were a DAISY-like "math reader."
• Reading TeX or LaTeX formulas on a Braille device is much too slow.