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Hi! My name is Bill Dengler. I'm a final semester computer science major with minors in linguistics (toward which I'm counting this course) and global studies. I have been totally blind since birth due to [[:wikipedia:Norrie disease|Norrie disease]] – I use the [http://nvaccess.org NVDA] and [https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph3e2e415f/ios VoiceOver] [[:wikipedia:Screen reader|screen readers]] to access my computer and phone respectively. | Hi! My name is Bill Dengler. I'm a final semester computer science major with minors in linguistics (toward which I'm counting this course) and global studies. I have been totally blind since birth due to [[:wikipedia:Norrie disease|Norrie disease]] – I use the [http://nvaccess.org NVDA] and [https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph3e2e415f/ios VoiceOver] [[:wikipedia:Screen reader|screen readers]] to access my computer and phone respectively. | ||
| − | Though my specialty is accessible technology (after graduation, I'll be starting a full-time software engineering position on | + | Though my specialty is accessible technology (after graduation, I'll be starting a full-time software engineering position at Microsoft, hopefully on the [https://accessibilityinsights.io Accessibility Insights] team), I have done a little bit at the intersection of computation and linguistics, though definitely more rooted in the former. Last semester (fall 2021), Jonathan and I [https://github.com/codeofdusk/treemendous developed a tool] to make syntax trees (and other types of trees more generally) accessible to blind people. While I am interested in language, especially how it operates as a "system", my linguistics experience is far more limited, particularly in the areas of phonetics and phonology. |
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Revision as of 22:49, 23 January 2022
About me
Hi! My name is Bill Dengler. I'm a final semester computer science major with minors in linguistics (toward which I'm counting this course) and global studies. I have been totally blind since birth due to Norrie disease – I use the NVDA and VoiceOver screen readers to access my computer and phone respectively.
Though my specialty is accessible technology (after graduation, I'll be starting a full-time software engineering position at Microsoft, hopefully on the Accessibility Insights team), I have done a little bit at the intersection of computation and linguistics, though definitely more rooted in the former. Last semester (fall 2021), Jonathan and I developed a tool to make syntax trees (and other types of trees more generally) accessible to blind people. While I am interested in language, especially how it operates as a "system", my linguistics experience is far more limited, particularly in the areas of phonetics and phonology.
Language ideas
I'm considering the following languages to work on this semester:
