building comp for VI

building comp for VI

[tyche]

iam currently in the process of building a comp for a person
who is slowly loosing all their sight.

would like to know if there are any screen readers that:

1) use the sound card for out put
2) can read a framed window in a gui
3) NOT require highlighting and hot keying.

i know a little about windows programs like jaws that
require a card similiar to dectalk. where i am located, i am
unable to local a retailer that sells or can acquire these
cards. my wholesalers havent the foggiest idea what i am
talking about.

any and all help, advice, etc. will be greatly appreciated

tyche



 
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Re: building comp for VI

[Geoff Shang]

tyche wrote:

> would like to know if there are any screen readers that:
>
> 1) use the sound card for out put
> 2) can read a framed window in a gui
> 3) NOT require highlighting and hot keying.
>
> i know a little about windows programs like jaws that
> require a card similiar to dectalk.

This is not a mailing list for the discussion of Windows, as its focus is 
Linux, but JAWS and most other Windows screen readers can and do speak 
through a standard soundcard.

Not sure what you mean by point 3 above.  Certainly a decent screen reader 
should speak most screen contents intuitively, but if anyone thinks they 
can design a screen reader that does not require any special commands for 
screen review then they are (1) kidding themselves and (2) not familiar 
with the way blind people use screen readers.  The ability to examine the 
screen and have information selectively spoken at will is integral to the 
whole screen reader experience.

Geoff.

Re: building comp for VI

[Vasile Radu]

jaws is able to speak using a sound card
with jaws is shiped a software synthesizer namely elocuence
this has more languages
and speak well!
I am using it with italiano.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tyche" <tyche@ica.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: building comp for VI


> iam currently in the process of building a comp for a person
> who is slowly loosing all their sight.
>
> would like to know if there are any screen readers that:
>
> 1) use the sound card for out put
> 2) can read a framed window in a gui
> 3) NOT require highlighting and hot keying.
>
> i know a little about windows programs like jaws that
> require a card similiar to dectalk. where i am located, i am
> unable to local a retailer that sells or can acquire these
> cards. my wholesalers havent the foggiest idea what i am
> talking about.
>
> any and all help, advice, etc. will be greatly appreciated
>
> tyche
>
>
>
>
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Re: building comp for VI

[tyche]

Geoff Shang wrote:
> tyche wrote:
> 
>> would like to know if there are any screen readers that:
>>
>> 1) use the sound card for out put
>> 2) can read a framed window in a gui
>> 3) NOT require highlighting and hot keying.
>>
>> i know a little about windows programs like jaws that
>> require a card similiar to dectalk.
> 
> 
> This is not a mailing list for the discussion of Windows, as its focus 
> is Linux, but JAWS and most other Windows screen readers can and do 
> speak through a standard soundcard.

i know jaws is for windows. am not going to build the thing 
for windows. am going to build it for linux.

> 
> Not sure what you mean by point 3 above.  Certainly a decent screen 
> reader should speak most screen contents intuitively,

i do realize that point.

> but if anyone 
> thinks they can design a screen reader that does not require any special 
> commands for screen review then they are (1) kidding themselves and (2) 
> not familiar with the way blind people use screen readers.  The ability 
> to examine the screen and have information selectively spoken at will is 
> integral to the whole screen reader experience.

thank you for informing me of that point as well.

> 
> Geoff.

question remains, which packages to get and compile. do they 
all use the sound card, or do they require something similar 
to a decktalk?

tia

tyche


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