Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Joseph, > On May 11, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Jerome, if you’re seeing this, can I still follow the same instructions to > update my build to the latest RC? Mostly... Since RC3, the Release Build Environment (RBE) has been redone. You will need to pull the latest RBE

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi Felix: Wish I could chime in on this with a great solution, but, I’m still stuck in about the same place. When I talked with Jerome Shidell, he pointed me to the build environment and told me how to do the build.  The only option was to build 1.3 RC2, I believe.  Actually, that wasn’t a bad

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Felix, > The primary reason is that I want to keep Windows on my hard > drive and I don't feel confident about using a boot manager. Disclaimer: The following only works if your Windows C: drive is NTFS! It does not work with ancient Windows on FAT C: drive. You could try the following:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Felix G.
Hi Eric, Am Di., 11. Mai 2021 um 14:08 Uhr schrieb Eric Auer : > given that you have a hardware serial port speech synthesizer, > there is a lot more optimism now! By the way, why do you want > to boot from USB? While many PC can boot from USB, the access > speed can be quite low and a few BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Felix, given that you have a hardware serial port speech synthesizer, there is a lot more optimism now! By the way, why do you want to boot from USB? While many PC can boot from USB, the access speed can be quite low and a few BIOS fail to support writes. I assume you also have the right

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread Felix G.
Yay! I knew why I posted here. That's exactly the kind of data I'm collecting. I'm going to try and create a FreeDOS bootable flash drive with the help of Rufus or some such, and put a screen reader on it. Then I'm going to dig out my old Juno speech synthesizer, connect it to COM1 of my old pc,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-11 Thread tom ehlert
> Two follow-ups: > 1. My installation is based on FreeDOS 1.3 RC3. Is there a stable > version incorporating ASAP somewhere? as ASAP seems to have commercial license: no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers > 2. I'd love to go native with DOS, preferrably booting from a USB >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-10 Thread Andrew Robins
Hey Felix and co, can I suggest an avenue such as a boot manager like Plop https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to get around booting into FreeDOS from USB? I haven't tried it this way myself, but I have used Plop in the past to boot into Puppy Linux using native USB 1.0 in an old

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hello Felix! Not sure what the license of the ASAP screen reader is? If I understand you correctly, it sends the text or an encoded version over a serial port to the host OS, in your case Windows? What is the license of the text to speech tool on the Windows size? Have people tried to do the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-10 Thread Felix G.
Hi! > You're going to get different answers. Empirically, yes it works fine > in some cases. Theoretically, however, it is apparently impossible. Made my day. Story of my life. > I think, the most important question here is, if the BIOS of your computer > does handle USB in the way you want.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Desi
Hi, I am much impressed by Felix’ blind-accessible DOS setup!! > Am 10.05.2021 um 12:20 schrieb Tomas By : > >> a) Can FreeDOS boot from a flash drive? > > You're going to get different answers. Empirically, yes it works fine > in some cases. Theoretically, however, it is apparently

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

2021-05-10 Thread Tomas By
On Mon, 10 May 2021 12:05:06 +0200, Felix G. wrote: > 2. I'd love to go native with DOS [...] I lose my speech synthesizer > emulator as this is Windows-hosted. You could use two machines? > a) Can FreeDOS boot from a flash drive? You're going to get different answers. Empirically, yes it works