Re: designing a screen reader

[Whistler <whistler blinksoft com>]

I forgot to reply to this post about making a new screen reader and was
waiting for someone else to post so I could throw my 2 cents in.  My
question is why wouldn't you join the speakup team or screader team or
even code extensions to Emacspeak  rather than create your own screen
reader.  The more people that work on these packages the better they will
get.

Ken

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, James R. Van Zandt wrote:

> 
> Under Linux, the screen contents is available via the virtual console
> devices like /dev/vcs1 and /dev/vcsa1 (one is without attributes, and
> the other is with them).
> 
> 		       - Jim Van Zandt
> 
> 
> >From: saqib saqib-shaikh freeserve co uk
> >Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:53:00 +0100
> >
> >For a project I am doing, I have decided to attempt to write a 
> >console screen reader for linux/unix. However, while I know c++ I 
> >do not know many of the low level linux calls, such as how to get 
> >the contents of the screen. In msdos you could do this using 
> >memcpy because you could read from the screen memory, but due 
> >to security and suchlike I don't think an equivalent is possible 
> >under unix/linux. If anyone has any help to offer, please contact me 
> >privately at saqib saqib-shaikh freeserve co uk 
> >thanks, saqib
> 
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