Hi, Do you plan to run FreeDOS directly on computer hardware, or in a virtual machine? I've had success with getting FreeDOS to work within QEMU in terminal only mode, allowing you to use a modern screen reader, such as Orca on Linux, but it could probably work on MacOS and VoiceOver. Not sure about Windows, although I wonder if Virtual Box supports similar functionality.
Thanks, Lawrence Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 14, 2024, at 5:30 AM, Felix G. via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hello list, > I remember that Joseph Norton has put together a FreeDOS distro with > the ASAP screen reader. However, this will not speak on its own---it > sends speech output to COM1, where it expects a hardware speech > synthesizer. > If you run FreeDOS in a VM you can redirect the guest's COM1 to one > end of a virtual COM port pair. Then you have a program read from the > other end and feed the data into eSpeak, and voilà, your FreeDOS talks > to you. > I had the distro lying around somewhere but currently I cannot find > it. Shall I keep searching? > Best, > FG > >> Am Mo., 14. Okt. 2024 um 12:06 Uhr schrieb G.W. Haywood via >> Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>: >> >> Hi there, >> >>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: >>> >>> ... I'm visually impaired and would like to use free dos. >> >> My vision is good but I'm chiming in now in case others take longer to >> get to your message. >> >> I believe a number of people on this list are visually impaired and I >> have seen but not followed discussions about screen readers here. >> >> If you're able to find and search the archives of the list you might >> find things which ineterest you. There's an archive here >> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/ >> >> but I have no idea how it performs for a visually impaired person. >> If it's no use to you I'd be glad to do a few searches for you. >> >> -- >> >> 73, >> Ged. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
