Well, unless he has left, He is still on list.
He did, if memory serves, get permission from the creator of asap and asaw
to include it in his project.
I might be entirely wrong, or he has a different one for dosbox.
However, as shared, access is not about screen readers alone, it is
frankly disturbing the folks who feel otherwise, because they hear such
all the time.
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Travis Siegel wrote:
> Possibly, but asap isn't opensource, so no article there.
> I do have an opensource screen reader, but again, it requires a physical
> synth, so I need to work on that somehow.
>
> Plus I have to find where I stuffed the source, it's around here
> somewhere, but I haven't seen it in a while.
>
> On the other hand, I'd be interested to see how ASAP was made to work,
> that should be an interesting reveal.
>
>
> On 1/29/2023 8:36 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > does not Joseph have a working edition of freedos using asap, as a
> > screen
> > reader?
> > The journey to getting accessibility, not just screen readers, but
> > voice
> > tools for those needing that kind of inclusion, might make for an
> > interesting piece.
> > Since opensource seeks well open source smiles, the article might
> > encourage creativity towards coding solutions that benefit many
> > populations. After all, accessibility is not about blindness
> > alone.
> > Kare
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Travis Siegel wrote:
> >
> > > I suppose if they're interested in articles on accessibility, I
> > should > probably write one on visually impaired access. I tried
> > to get a > screen reader included into the project several years
> > ago, and was > turned down, because of the license of the code, even
> > though it didn't > have any restrictions on distribution, other than
> > the fact that whoever > did so have a license for the a86 assembler,
> > (which I do have), but I've > also not done a whole lot with it
> > since then, so perhaps it's time I did > do something about that.
> > I need to figure out some way to tie that > screen reader to a
> > software synthesizer of some sort, so folks don't > need a physical
> > hardware synthesizer. If that could be accomplished, > then
> > freedos would truly be completely accessible.
> > > > Of course, it is sort of accessible to visually impaired folks
> > now, > since running it under dosemu on linux uses the linux screen
> > reader, and > works just fine, though I've not tried running it on
> > something like > dosbox under windows, to see if the windows screen
> > reader works for it.
> > > > I guess there's more work that needs done before I could truly
> > write an > all inclusive article about it being accessible to
> > visually impaired > users.
> > > > On the other hand, because dos is so easy to use, it does make
> > it a lot > more accessible than other operating systems like windows
> > though, so > perhaps there's an article there.
> > > > <shrug>
> > > > I'll think about it, and see if there's something I can come up
> > with > that seems publication worthy.
> > > > Ideas are of course welcome, which is (mostly) why I went ahead
> > and > posted this message.
> > > > Thanks for listening.
> > > > > On 1/29/2023 2:37 PM, Linvel Risner wrote:
> > > > I’m by no means a FreeDOS expert, I’m just a user, but if
> > anyone > > would
> > > > like help writing an article I’m here to help. I know our >
> > > > >
> > community is
> > > > very diverse linguistically and as a result I’m more than
> > happy to > > lend
> > > > a hand to an English as a second language speaker/writer. I
> > would > > take no
> > > > credit, you’d have 100% ownership of the article, I’d just
> > like > > to
> > > > help in some way. Reach out if y’all need anything :)
> > > > > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 2:20 PM John Vella
> > <john.ve...@gmail.com> > > wrote:
> > > > > > That sounds like the sort of thing I'd be
> > > > > > interested
> > in > > doing, but
> > > > what sort of article are they looking for? Are they
> > > > after a
> > > > "history of FreeDOS" type article, because that's been
> > done > > so
> > > > many times it would be hard to write anything original,
> > > > >
> > > wouldn't it?
> > > > > > I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > John.
> > > > > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, 18:41 Jim Hall,
> > <jh...@freedos.org> > > wrote:
> > > > > > If anyone here is interested in writing
> > > > > > articles >
> > > about FreeDOS,
> > > > Opensource.com is interested in running FreeDOS
> > > > > >
> > articles. I write
> > > > articles for them sometimes, and the FreeDOS
> > > > articles perform very
> > > > well on the site. In fact, they recently listed
> > > > > >
> > FreeDOS among
> > > > their
> > > > list of "topics we're interested in for 2023."
> > > > Also >
> > > included
> > > > in the
> > > > list: conio and C programming.
> > > > > > I can tell you the editors are very
> > > > > > welcoming,
> > which > > is why I
> > > > continue
> > > > to write articles for them. If English isn't
> > > > your > >
> > first
> > > > language, and
> > > > you aren't confident of your English writing
> > > > skills, >
> > > they can help
> > > > with editing to make the final version really
> > > > nice.
> > > > > > Here's the list they shared, in case this
> > > > > > inspires
> > > > anyone to
> > > > write an article:
> > > > > > - accessibility
> > > > - Ansible
> > > > - apt
> > > > - Awk
> > > > - Bash scripting
> > > > - Blender
> > > > - C getopt
> > > > - C Programming
> > > > - Chaos Engineering for K8s
> > > > - Compose Key
> > > > - conio
> > > > - Containers/Pods
> > > > - cron
> > > > - Curl
> > > > - DevOps
> > > > - DevSecOps
> > > > - dnf
> > > > - doxygen
> > > > - Emacs
> > > > - find command
> > > > - Firewall
> > > > - FreeDOS
> > > > - GDB
> > > > - GIMP
> > > > - Git
> > > > - GNOME
> > > > - GNU Screen
> > > > - Go Beginners
> > > > - Grep
> > > > - Home Automation
> > > > - Inkscape
> > > > - Intro Small Scale Scrum
> > > > - Java
> > > > - JavaScript
> > > > - Jinja2
> > > > - Jupyter
> > > > - Kdenlive
> > > > - Kubectl
> > > > - Kubernetes
> > > > - Kubernetes SRE
> > > > - Linux Apps
> > > > - Linux perms
> > > > - Logrotate
> > > > - Markdown
> > > > - MySQL
> > > > - Networking
> > > > - Parted
> > > > - Pygame eBook
> > > > - PyPI
> > > > - Python
> > > > - Raspberry Pi
> > > > - Running K8s on RPi
> > > > - Rust
> > > > - Sed
> > > > - SELinux
> > > > - SSH
> > > > - sudo
> > > > - sustainability
> > > > - systemd
> > > > - tmux
> > > > - Vim
> > > > - wget
> > > > > > Email the editors at o...@opensource.com
> > > > > > They have a "write for us" page at > >
> > https://opensource.com/writers
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