I just noticed that
www.svardos.org
published something that may interest you:
https://emubns.sourceforge.net/
A svardos dos cd, maybe you remember drdos or novell dos. I did not test it, but I know two blind people and learned that blind people can find it out. it is on the actual svardos site for download. could be english.
I also know a german blind programmer that writes programms for blind people in windows, Wolfram Flossdorf.
https://www.softcologne.de/winprogs/index.htm.
He has several tools for blind people on his site, but all in german, but I am sure you know a translation tool.
His programms work fine but are in german only, and he has no wish to translate them. For not blind people they look a little bit strange as he has the problem not to see the position of the program windows and the buttons, so they are sometimes arranged a little strange, but anyhow it works. So do not listen to seeing people, that say what a bullshit this is. A lot of things are inside, a scanner that reads you the text of documents, a mail program, a writing program, a substitute for explorer, you can listen to webradios, music cds etc. etc. he has a test version, the price for full version should be below 100 Euro.
for linux there is a boot cd called adriane, created from Mr. Knopper, the inventor of Knoppix, a Linux boot Cd, made for his blind wife, a little outdated, but I think it could work in english.
start here:
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix741.html
If you have any question, inform me.
Willi
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Am 15.10.24, 20:01 schrieb Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
On 10/14/2024 9:11 AM, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-devel wrote:
> Hi. I'm visually impaired and would like to use free dos. Are there
> any developers willing to look in to creating a talking boot disk?
> Free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide if it had
> speech accessibility. I would think the free e-speak synthesizer could
> be ported to dos and made to work with one of the free dos screen
> readers out there. I'm not a developer, but would be willing to work
> with someone on this and do beta testing. I still have my dos screen
> readers. If software speech could be added to free dos there are at
> least two dos screen readers I know of that have been released as
> freeware. What would be ideal is a distro we could put on a flash
> drive that would detect sound cards and come up talking like the Slint
> Linux distro does. If any developers are willing to look into this it
> would be greatly appreciated and useful to people world wide.
Honestly, this is probably outside of the possibility for FreeDOS. DOS
in general does not have a concept of drivers, and by itself, doesn't
use any sound, beside a rudimentary "beep".
To make this possible, this would require an almost impossible task of
detecting sound cards/chips, installing/load appropriate drivers,
installing a "speaking" application, all before DOS could actually do
what it is supposed to do.
As bad as I might feel for you and your impairment, I simply don't think
that is something feasible..
Ralf
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