Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
Eric, first, with all due respect. until you are using these tools in a situation that mirrors the varied ones by those experiencing vision loss, you cannot even guess at this. as for my interest in what I would want to see improved in freedos, have a look at enhanced Dr dos and you will get cl

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, while I have not used any screen reader, I have used both text to speech (to announce incoming mail) and written a tool to forward an extract of a DOS or Linux text screen to a 4 by 20 LCD display, navigated by buttons on the LCD. The latter arguably has some similarity to a screenreade

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
This is exactly my point. grant Eric is confusing screen readers with speech, but the experience of blindness is not a uniform thing at all. no more than vision is. People have personal preferences based on their individual desires and goals. Your friend is running lord 3 of the best, especiall

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Eric, I really have not read this, very little time. going to keep this simple. If you want to search for information on any topic, including screen readers and synthesizes, try google. Second, you say that you disagree with the concept of a screen reader and synthesizer serving an all in one pu

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > You would be surprised :) > The only blind person I know is actually a big fan of DOS (however, I don't > really know whether he uses MSDOS, FreeDOS or any other DOS). > For a blind person, even tasks which sounds trivial to us are

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

2010-04-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, On Thursday 08 April 2010 15:17 (CEST), Eric Auer wrote: > What do you mean by getting freedos to work? It already > does work as a DOS but it does not come bundled with a > screen reader... I understand if people are unhappy with > Windows and screen readers for it, but which tasks would