Travis,
Your sharing reminded me of another possibility.
Since Jaws for dos was specifically referenced, I did not share that,
assuming someone kept the build, there is a compile of freedos using the
asap DOS screen reader.
Joseph Norton, who has been silent for some time, anyone connect with him
recently? Got permission from the author of asap to include the program.
Anyway, do you have a copy of smooth talk? I have the others, although I
was never a fan of Jaws. Still, might be interesting to see how the
soundblaster card process works.
Karen
On Sat, 5 Apr 2025, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
The answer to both of your questions is yes.
Jaws for dos is free for dos use, and can be installed, though I don't know
where to obtain it, no idea if FS still has it on their site or not, but a
search of google should turn it up somewhere.
There is an opensource screen reader, but it requires a hardware synthesizer,
(as does jaws for dos I believe).?? It's called provox, and it's available in
multiple places, you can search for the filename provox7.zip and it should
turn up with very little searching.
That one does come with source, and I've asked in the past to see if it could
be included in freedos, but the answer was given that since it's written in
A86 assembler, the distributors of freedos would much prefer for it to be
converted to something that is freely available for dos distribution, rather
than a shareware package assembler.?? This would entail converting the A86
assembly code to masm or tasm, since I believe both of those assemblers are
available for dos distribution, though I could be wrong there. Tasm
definitely is, though come to think of it, I've not seen archive copies of
masm anywhere for dos distribution, so that might mean tasm should be the
target assembler for provox conversion.
It was decided that although A86 allows licensed users (of which I am one) to
distribute software with A86 assembly code, since I don't represent freedos
in any way, that restriction wouldn't cover the freedos project, which is why
it was decided that converting to another version of assembly would be
necessary.
I'm not a good enough assembly programmer to do the conversion, though these
days it may be possible to get AI to do the conversion, then test it
thoroughly to verify full functionality.
On the other hand, if you run freedos in an emulator, it's possible your
windows/linux screen reader would take up the slack for you, allowing you to
use the freedos install without having a dos screen reader at all, since it
could use your windows one for the task.?? I've not tested this though, so
can't say how well it will work.?? I know it used to work using dosemu under
linux, but that was many many years ago, and I don't know the current state
of affairs regarding that kind of a setup these days.?? I do use linux, but
as much as I'd like to, I lost my dos machine in the last move we made about
3 years ago, so I no longer have access to bare metal dos, which is honestly
the best way I liked to run dos.?? One of these days, I'll get into emulators
and mess with it to figure out what works best now, and possibly release an
image that does the trick, though admittedly, there are one or two images
that already have dos images that come up talking, though I don't currently
know where those are stored, since it's been quite some time since I messed
with dos as mentioned above.
There is also a dos screen reader that used the soundblaster for output,
which would mean you don't need a physical synthesizer.?? I don't know what
the name of that screen reader was, but it might have been smooth talker
(stalker.exe) or text talker, or something similar, never got that one to
work myself.
In any case, hope this helps.?? Feel free to post here with more questions,
I'm sure someone can answer them, even if that someone isn't me.
On 4/5/2025 8:19 PM, Armin Moradi via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello,
my name is armin moradi, I am 28 years old and i am blind.
I want to try free dos and i want to ask, is it posible to install for
example the jaws for dos screen reader?
Or, is a screenreader avaylable for free dos?
Regards
Armin Moradi
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