If jaws for dos worked better with the program, I'd suggest finding an
old computer and speech synthesizer. An xp machine could work with a
serial synthesizer if it had a serial port (many did) but a serial port
on a more modern machine is a rare thing. It is even more rare to find
usb to serial drivers that don't put the port on some number no dos
program will touch. I'm afraid that dos programs are pretty near their
end, you can't run them on 64 bit systems without some sort of emulator,
and that is where everything is going.
On 11/27/2012 16:03, Charles Nicol wrote:
Hi,
I Wonder if any of you can help?
I am currently using the latest build of JAWS 14 with Vocaliser voices. At
work, I need to access and support an old MS DOS application and am having
trouble getting JAWS to speak menus, forms, fields etc., within the
application. I used to run a DOS Screen Reader many years ago, however, it
was dependent upon a hardware speech synthesizer.
Is it possible to run a package like JAWS For DOS on a PC, alongside JAWS 14
and, if so, how might I go about this? Would JAWS for DOS work with a
software synthesizer? Alternatively, how might I configure JAWS 14 to work
better with a DOS application (DataEase Database Software), or are there any
scripts out there which might help? I know that JAWS works fine with the
Command Prompt in WINDOWS XP, however, this is pretty rudimentary.
I contacted Freedom Scientific but they cannot offer any support. They
suggested contacting some of the user forums for advice.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts, realising that some of the younger
community on the list may not even know what MS DOS was.
With Kind Regards,
Charlie Nicol.
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