From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HBjQB-0007iR-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:12:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 5374 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jan 2007 20:12:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:12:04 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: virtual machines Message-ID: <20070130031204.GA5349@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070129125128.GA24520@cq.ftml.net> <45BE1D96.40703@brailcom.org> <20070129182330.GA13142@cq.ftml.net> <20070129215725.GA38699@fajrero> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070129215725.GA38699@fajrero> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:12:35 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I'm not mistaken, vmware is a commercial package, right? Is there anything free, (either speech or beer), that can do the job fairly well? Greg On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:57:25PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up > going > with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but > everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd > that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options, > and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just > posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in > bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a > spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going > at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took > 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With > vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but > sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset. > Hope this helps, > Tyler > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFvreE7s9z/XlyUyARAvlLAJ41iNVUa44P9D+FF1yQGJWy8/IGWACeL6b2 9m8dGMDIg4oAxq7Un+zMSlE= =8Bxt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----