I suppose if they're interested in articles on accessibility, I should
probably write one on visually impaired access. I tried to get a screen
reader included into the project several years ago, and was turned down,
because of the license of the code, even though it didn't have any
restrictions on distribution, other than the fact that whoever did so
have a license for the a86 assembler, (which I do have), but I've also
not done a whole lot with it since then, so perhaps it's time I did do
something about that. I need to figure out some way to tie that screen
reader to a software synthesizer of some sort, so folks don't need a
physical hardware synthesizer. If that could be accomplished, then
freedos would truly be completely accessible.
Of course, it is sort of accessible to visually impaired folks now,
since running it under dosemu on linux uses the linux screen reader, and
works just fine, though I've not tried running it on something like
dosbox under windows, to see if the windows screen reader works for it.
I guess there's more work that needs done before I could truly write an
all inclusive article about it being accessible to visually impaired users.
On the other hand, because dos is so easy to use, it does make it a lot
more accessible than other operating systems like windows though, so
perhaps there's an article there.
<shrug>
I'll think about it, and see if there's something I can come up with
that seems publication worthy.
Ideas are of course welcome, which is (mostly) why I went ahead and
posted this message.
Thanks for listening.
On 1/29/2023 2:37 PM, Linvel Risner wrote:
I’m by no means a FreeDOS expert, I’m just a user, but if anyone would
like help writing an article I’m here to help. I know our community is
very diverse linguistically and as a result I’m more than happy to
lend a hand to an English as a second language speaker/writer. I would
take no credit, you’d have 100% ownership of the article, I’d just
like to help in some way. Reach out if y’all need anything :)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 2:20 PM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote:
That sounds like the sort of thing I'd be interested in doing, but
what sort of article are they looking for? Are they after a
"history of FreeDOS" type article, because that's been done so
many times it would be hard to write anything original, wouldn't it?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Cheers,
John.
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, 18:41 Jim Hall, <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
If anyone here is interested in writing articles about FreeDOS,
Opensource.com is interested in running FreeDOS articles. I write
articles for them sometimes, and the FreeDOS articles perform very
well on the site. In fact, they recently listed FreeDOS among
their
list of "topics we're interested in for 2023." Also included
in the
list: conio and C programming.
I can tell you the editors are very welcoming, which is why I
continue
to write articles for them. If English isn't your first
language, and
you aren't confident of your English writing skills, they can help
with editing to make the final version really nice.
Here's the list they shared, in case this inspires anyone to
write an article:
- accessibility
- Ansible
- apt
- Awk
- Bash scripting
- Blender
- C getopt
- C Programming
- Chaos Engineering for K8s
- Compose Key
- conio
- Containers/Pods
- cron
- Curl
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- dnf
- doxygen
- Emacs
- find command
- Firewall
- FreeDOS
- GDB
- GIMP
- Git
- GNOME
- GNU Screen
- Go Beginners
- Grep
- Home Automation
- Inkscape
- Intro Small Scale Scrum
- Java
- JavaScript
- Jinja2
- Jupyter
- Kdenlive
- Kubectl
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes SRE
- Linux Apps
- Linux perms
- Logrotate
- Markdown
- MySQL
- Networking
- Parted
- Pygame eBook
- PyPI
- Python
- Raspberry Pi
- Running K8s on RPi
- Rust
- Sed
- SELinux
- SSH
- sudo
- sustainability
- systemd
- tmux
- Vim
- wget
Email the editors at o...@opensource.com
They have a "write for us" page at https://opensource.com/writers
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