Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on
different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be
very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos
programs you can get and the amount of old computers many of can be had
for free or next to nothing. Do you think it would be worth asking about
this on the developer list or is that only for developers? It should be
possible to port e-speak to dos and get one of the free screen readers
to work. Slint Linux is an example of a Linux distro that has very good
accessibility. But dos emu doesn't work anymore on the newer version for
some reason. What would be ideal is a distro of a free dos boot disk we
could [put on a USB flash drive that would come up talking. I'm not a
developer, but with all the advancements being made today I would think
this would be possible for someone who is a programmer to do. The distro
you mentioned might have been talking dos box. It works, but has to be
run from another operating system. Thanks for the suggestion though and
have a great day.
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.
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