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NVAccess.org manages the NVDA screenreader which is free and open source. It's what I rely on to use a computer.

It's also stealing massive market share from JAWS.


Have you published this list yet? I'd be very interested to take a look.


Very excited to see more people working on accessible applications!

How is this different from TextDetective, or other OCR apps for the blind?


The accessibility community is very small and highly networked. I can introduce you to individual developers if you are interested. I guess HN doesn't allow Private Messages, but you can find me on linkedin linkedin.com/in/chrmaury


Siri was built--and still relies--on Dragon Mobile Speech Recognition from Nuance


Shit, I didn't know that. Whoa.


Does anyone know of a link to download this resource? I'm not confident that it will remain active, especially after all of this attention.


If you are on a *nix machine you can run:

wget -rkp -l3 -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/lockpick.html

If on mac os you'll need to brew install wget or follow this tutorial to use curl http://psung.blogspot.com/2008/06/using-wget-or-curl-to-down...

After you've downloaded the website you can run a simple server in a terminal by navigating to where you downloaded the website and running

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then navigate to http://0.0.0.0:8000/lockpicking.html in your web browser.

LPT: I do this with coding tutorial sites before getting on planes so I don't waste money buying internet and time browsing other content.


The Guide has been available for decades. No amount of attention will suppress it; individual copies & links, maybe, but not in general.


This particular text has been floating around the Internet since the eighties, I doubt that this will make any difference. Just search for "mit lockpicking filetype:pdf" and you'll find thousands of copies.


It's just text so hopefully it should be able to stay up.

However I really like backing up things and making a local mirror so I'm not going to stop you. I hate it when something interesting like this vanishes from the internet and it turns out no one has a copy.

So I'm hosting a copy of it for you and anyone else that would like to help preserve it. I just downloaded the copy with:

"wget --mirror --page-requisites --no-parent --convert-links --no-parent --wait=5 --random-wait -U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14" -e robots=off --progress=bar --level=8 --referer=$2 $1"

Here's a copy I just put on my server: http://www.ifnotequal.com/The-MIT-Lockpicking-Guide-Mirror/m...

I've included a download for it (also hosted on my server) at the top of that page. It's only 290.5KiB.

All the best and enjoy.


mkdir lockpick_guide; cd lockpick_guide

curl "http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/chapter[0-9].html" -O http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/lockpick.html -O http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/appendix.html -O

for i in $(cat * | grep -P "\w+-\w+\.gif" -o | uniq); do curl http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/$i -O done

`which python2` -m SimpleHTTPServer

Edit: apparently wget has a magical flag that allows you to download all resources on an HTML page as well. Consider this solution inferior to Ellipsis753's and jamiis's. However, I will leave my reply up since this method is applicable to a lot of other situations as well.


You're right. iOS has a feature called screen curtain, which turns your screen off while using Voice Over. Great for battery life (and privacy).


I would love to see a gameplay video on the iPad. The controls could be very tough...


Here's the first half of the tutorial:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pOqwUoJniPQ
I feel like the controls are pretty decent. It's pretty much a straight port from the PC, so the menus are the same, etc. The hitbox for small items can be a bit of an issue, but that's my only complaint so far.

You may want to browse through the TouchArcade forums for more feedback and videos:

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=169358


Or Apple's Airplay


Thank you! This is the point I was trying to make in the article. I don't think I articulated it all that well. The technology exists, it's just branded incorrectly.

I regret that I only have one upvote to give.


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