This all sounds good. If you learn apple script you can get the same
thing with out putting out any bucks.
On Jul 23, 2010, at 3:43 PM, .dan. wrote:
I have attached to my imac a dos computer. I use it to perform
tasks in terminal and on the internet. Why you ask do that?
It is my experience that not since the high level times of dos
screen access have blind people had as much fine grained control and
power to read screens in the way they perfer. This is just
impossible in a gui. Just one small measure, what in dos takes one
keystroke in the mac gui might take 3 or more keystrokes. Mac
applications and vo are very finger fussy that way. Also if I want
to read a specific area with the touch of a key and only that area
one must do a crude imitation on the mac. Those who had dos
experience can think of many more. It is now the reality that many
blind folk today have always only known a gui and don't reailize
what we old dos users miss.
In part I got the imac hoping screen access had improved over those
in windows I had experienced breifly some years ago. It has not
improved to anything like dos access. I had particular interest to
use speech in the mac terminal but while it is workable it again can
not approach dos access. The terminal is the closest one gets to dos
in a mac. So I concieved the idea of hooking a dos machine to the
mac to use it in terminal with all the power that dos access provides.
The dos machine is on a 4 inch square mother board and is a complete
computer with multiple ports and connectivity. This includes
network and usb ports. It makes no sound at all as it has no fans
nor moving parts because it uses a flash chip as a hard drive and a
wall wart for a power source. While I run dos, it can run any os
that also uses 8086 chips. I use a memory stick as one would a
floppy disk such as when having to boot outside the hard drive
during trouble shooting.
I use a serial port to connect to a mac usb port with an adaptor.
This allows me to use dos screen reading and communications
software. The latter has a powerful macro language and engine so
while I'm on the mac or internet I can do very complex things with a
keystroke, or because it can use text as a trigger it can do things
automatically. Logins for example are done automattically with no
input from me.
Best of all all the power of a dos screen access program is there
for use in the mac terminal that vo just does not have at this point.
I'm as happy as a pig in mud, I have the power of dos in terminal
and on the internet and the mac gui for anything I might find it
might do better.
XB
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