What I use is a PCI card called the PC Weasel, which you install in to
the case or connect to a PCI slot. You have to remove any existing
video card and connect a serial cable from this to another computer
running a terminal (this is what I use Putty for). Then you have Window
Eyes read what comes up in the terminal. It tracks your cursor
movements and does work fairly well, except that it doesn't obviously
work on laptops and does require you to be very used to taking computers
apart and putting them back together. I cannot recommend it unless
you're certified or really know what you're doing and even then do this
at your own risk. If you don't know what you're doing you could end up
with a hosed motherboard Etc due to static discharge Etc. Always make
sure main power is disconnected from the case and always make sure
you're grounded with a antistatic strap. It's a real pain if all's you
want to do is change your boot priority. The old way I did it before I
had the PC Weasel was to connect a printer or parallel speech
synthesizer to the computer and then hit print screen in the bios, but
this only gives you a screen dump and requires that you have both a
parallel device capable of speech or capturing data and that your
computer has a print screen key on the keyboard. If you have a OCR
package and a camera like the KNFB Reader, the SiRecognizer or something
ismilar you could try taking pictures of the screen and reading it that
way, but even if you get the lighting just right and get a good capture,
you'll only get a screen dump, not a way to track what's changing on the
screen as you arrow around. The PC Weasel method is far better.
Beyond those choices no as far as I know there is no way to access
a BIOS screen.
Cory
On 25/06/2011 5:57 PM, Louis wrote:
Hello folks. Is there an accessible way to access the computer's bios
or would I need sighted help? Thanks.
Louis
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