Hi Lawrence,
I have a serious Linux friend wanting to do this comparatively. not with
orca, but another Linux tool.
does your process extend to command line Linux?
Karen
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
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
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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.
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