I am not sure about windoweyes, but one reason why I like nvda at
least for simple apps using standard controls, is that nvda was built
to take advantage of the libraries in the system.
It uses all apis and is made with a scripting language meaning extra
modules for it can be source scripted
The reason screen readers actually used video intercept was back in the
early 90's when windows and Office were taking off, there were no
standardized Access API's. By the time those got developped the
developers didn't really change well, most of them at least.
Taking JAWS and NVDA as an
, 2011 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Eamon Deluxe Update-12-27-2011
The reason screen readers actually used video intercept was back in the
early 90's when windows and Office were taking off, there were no
standardized Access API's. By the time those got developped the developers
didn't
Hi,
HmmmNow, that makes sense. As I understand it what you are saying
is because Jaws and Window-Eyes date clear back to the Windows 3.x
days and a lot of the APIs that are in Windows XP, Vista, and Windows
7 have didn't exist yet. Thus they used a video intercept to create an
off-screen
Hi,
I am not sure if this is the whole truth...
I can remember that JAWS 5 or 6 can be run on Windows 9x without you being
forced to install a Video Intercept like driver on your PC.
However on XP and maybe 2000 as well you are forced to do so.
So, I am not entirely sure why it is on theese
Hi Michael,
I'm not an expert on how the Jaws video intercept driver works, but
apparently it somehow works in tandem with the existing Windows APIs
to provide spoken feedback to what is on screen. The video intercept
driver Jaws supplies is not where Jaws gets most of its information
though.
Hi Dark,
I understand where you are coming from, and am just as annoyed at
being stuck with having to use something like dosbox to play games
that would or should be otherwise accessible if someone just wrote a
proper interpreter for it. However, as a programmer I see where their
coming from as
Hi tom.
i know that is the usual situations as far as access goes, but to me there
is a major difference betwene a game with huge amounts of agraphics that
would require massive addaptation, and just printing some text to the
screen.
I have however had some good news, which is that the
Hi Thomas,
I see what you mean, but now I wonder...
Firstly, why use Video Intercept or something else at all?
My Desktop Computer has an NVIDIA Graphics card. Every year the NVIDIA
software with drivers gets updated several times.
If I update the Software and restart my machine as part of the
Hi thomas,
I have a very important question about this topic.
I'll use JAWS as an example here, because I am not sure what other screen
readers do.
You said that any program which uses the Windows API is theoretically
readable with a screen reader because the program broadcasts some
textual, but none standard
controls was fine with hal.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Gauler michael.gau...@gmx.de
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Eamon Deluxe Update-12-27
Hi.
I recieved this from the Eamon delux announce mailing list, and to forstall
questions, see http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Eamon+delux
I'm not however sure whether or not this is goodnews, sinse with what the
developer says about Doxbox, I'm not sure if this also means the new version
Hi Dark,
Unfortunately, this looks like a step backwards instead of forwards to
me. The reason Dosbox is inaccessible to a screen reader is because it
doesn't use the Windows API and uses a cross-platform generic graphics
toolkit. Since it doesn't use an API the screen readers were designed
to
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fw: Eamon Deluxe Update-12-27-2011
Hi Dark,
Unfortunately, this looks like a step backwards instead of forwards to
me. The reason Dosbox is inaccessible to a screen reader is because
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