Well back in intermediate I did do soeing.
Of course I had a sightling actually do it for me.
Now for those adventurous there are kneedle guides.
Back then, it was my view that the blind will never be able to soe because we can't, we after all are blind and its visual.
Back then, there was 1 machine a jinomey or however its spelt that ran with a lot of cardboard cards.
The students were not allowed to use it as it was to advanced, but when I asked I was proudly told that with programmable punch cards it could run itself.
Then it was just a marvel, but, with all the advances, and the tech, I suspect that if that was the start, and with sd tech as it is now, you could probably connect your machine to a computer.
Now, you would still need to thread it and guide things I guess, but if you could access it you could program it.
I could imagine soeing on my tablet or my keyboard or something.
Things are changing.
If the blind can use touch to some extent along with keyboards, haptics and voice, and in an age where everything has a usb port, network connection, wireless/bluetooth and other sd support we can access more things from other things.
An example is the printer I have at home.
I have a brother printer at home and an hp cloud printer at another location.
Both the interfaces are inaccessible and all the devices are not directly usable.
However while I do need sightling help to connect to the net and confirm cloudprint registration, I am perfectly able to control it, replace ink, run repair and tuning tasks and update the printer with ease from its internal web server which is its interface rendered in java like the router interfaces.
In the case with my hp and brother, I don't even have to set it up via the device at all.
If its in range once installed, it will directly connect with the device and set itself up if on wireless including transfering all the wireless information including logons over and have you set everything with their online account which can be a bit hit and miss but it can be done.
If its on the network I can set it up myself to.
The only time this falls down is if power dropps or I need to restart the router in which case, I turn off all the devices in sequence, then turn them all on.
The fact that a lot more stuff is accessible gives me hope.
Even if its not accessible itself it only needs to be accessible enough so that other devices can connect with it.
The next thing coming about from friends that seem to know a lot is that our washing machines/driers now all touch will be speakable, and connectable to tablets/computers.
So I can actually do my drying/washing of clothes, or dishes or something while living my life.
And if it jamms instead of having to go down and find a mess on the floor or something, the thing will probably yell at my closest device.
If that can be done, all machines will be able to be connected to.
That means any mainstream machine need not be accessible at all itself as long as we can use something that is then that will be fine.
The issue with spaciffic machines built for us is that the tech jacks up the prices.
But if we can interface with normal machines, all we will have to buy is software to interface and probably if we are allowed or can buy interface access can write programs ourselves which could mean we will be the ones making the cash and thats a good thing rather than all those huge blind access tech companies that have a monopoly because no one is able to compete or match them right now.