Re: designing a screen reader

["Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran nimbus ocis temple edu>]

Hi, Charles!
Do you know where this Gspeech can be found? Everyone talks about it, but no
one says where it can be located.
Regards,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles w3 org>
To: <blinux-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: designing a screen reader


> Designing a screen reader that reads the content of a screen in linux
assumes
> that there is a single screen, which is basically a flawed assumption. For
a
> given output stream, such as a particular virtual console or terminal,
there
> is an output stream that you can find. I would encourage you to look at
the
> gspeech work that paolo is doing, adn if you think there is value in
making a
> non-open-source screen reader maybe you could do something similar for
some
> other flavour - KDE perhaps.
>
> Charles McCN
>
> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, sfogarty wrote:
>
>   the source code for linux is available from redhat / cheapbytes on the
net
>   at www.cheapbytes.com, so you may be able to get something from that.
>
>   simon.At 11:53 AM 8/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
>   >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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