From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG>
To: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
Cc: brian@henge.com, malv0002@gold.tc.umn.edu, blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net
Subject: Re: UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:07:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.961014204928.13960A-100000@Ocean.CAM.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <325dab57.ccs@ccs.covici.com>
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, John Covici wrote:
> But can you do the simple thing, i.e. set up a computer with Linux and
> run something from the console which will speak everything?
>
> Would have been nice to have something in the kernel for some of the
> basic sdreen reader functionality.
I really think that screen reading functionalities must not be in the
kernel source. The kernel already offers the contents to all virtual
console screens (text and attributes) through /dev/vcsa* and it is also
possible to simulate key strokes with those devices. So any screen
reading software may actually be designed as a daemon. The BRLTTY package
works that way and I actually hacked it to make it read the screen with my
voice synthesizer.
The only thing I don't know is how to intercept keystrokes from the
console keyboard... But it is done in dosemu (the kernel may let a raw
keyboard access).
So the actual kernel offers every tools needed for a vocal screen reading
daemon. It just need somebody to write it.
nico@cam.org
Nicolas Pitre
ing. stag.
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` UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site John Covici
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