Hi magnus,
unfortunately this is not how screenreaders work. screenreaders rely on
accessibility libraries built into the operating system. running a windows
screenreader in linux will not work, you need to use orc(the linux
screenreader).
fortunately some realy helpfull packages are already ported to
windows(brltty to use braille displays and espeak to give speech output).
but these applications are just part of the proces. for example when
running brltty in graphic mode it will just show lines filled with the ?
symbol.
the main problem of screenreaders is they have to find out what developers
had done to make an app accessible. for example, when a screenreader give
access to firefox version 40 that same version will probably run into
problems when running version 60, the screen reader needs to be updated
and adjusted to the changes made in the app. Reactos is an os built from
the ground. what i think would be helpfull is to do it the other way this
time: built functionality into the os to display just text on braille
displays instead of graphics for example. when the accessibility is fully
built into the os updated apps will have much less influence because the
os itself is doing the tasks needed to make everythign accessible. I think
it is a much harder job to build this into a fully finished os than to
include such features in an os that is still in heavy development.
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Magnus Johnsson wrote:
Jumping in here with a quick reply as a *lurker*, not a developer:
Don't think anyone would mind if you supplied patches :). You have to
understand, with people still working on kernel things, making applications
actually work, stop crashing, hardware support...
Most that would interface with screenreaders would *probably* be handled by
WINE anyway. Is there something specific you have a problem with not
working? If so, do file a bug report! But first check that the same fault
doesn't pop up with wine under linux.
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, 15:39 Dick <d...@deds.nl wrote:
Hi,
I did not receive anny replies about my question to make reactos
accessible for the blind. I would really suggest to do that
while building
the os, instead of doign it when the whole system is fully
built.
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