Dan, I would have to say good luck, but I'm not quite sure if it will work the way you expect it to for a screen reader. I have tutored some visually impaired programmers in the past and it seems to me that the application (Jaws...I think) they used would only read text from the screen. What I'm trying to say is it was using something along the likes of WM_GETTEXT (Windowz World) to get the text of the window under the cursor. The problem with VNC is that it basically captures an image of the screen and sends it back to the viewer. In my opinion, it would be nearly impossible for one to decode the text out of an image; but if you know of a way I would greatly enjoy being proven wrong.
Jake Hoover -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Miner Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: using a VNC client as a screen magnifier I'm a visually inconvenced :) person who will someday need screen enlargement and then speech output to use my computers. In the meantime, I survive reasonably well without these tools. However, I've been kicking around the idea of writing a VNC client which would *provide* the screen enlargement as part of its functionality. This would provide the much needed function/feature to X windows. I don't believe it to be so useful to Windows since you can't easily separate displaying and rendering. Does anyone know of a project already under way following this line of thought? Any thoughts about getting started on writing a client? Regards, Dan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
