Re: no replies about making reactos accessible for the blind
Dick <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:53:00 +0100 (CET)
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why not? i am not a programmer myself, but maybe there is a workaround(emulating graphics mode but not displaying them for example), maybe things that are not possible in microsoft windows can be made possible in the windows-environment reactos creates On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote: > This is not Linux, Windows software can NOT run with no graphics ;) > > El mié., 14 nov. 2018 17:36, Dick <[email protected]> escribió: > of course, you are right. but like in linux, much software can > be ran > headless without graphics. > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Erkin Alp Güney wrote: > > >> 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. > > > > Some software will not work that way because they supply UI > not text, > > just images. That kind of software will not work with > screenreaders nor > > hi-contrast unless it is explicitly programmed for. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ros-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev____________________________ > ___________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev