Re: designing a screen reader

[Charles McCathieNevile <charles w3 org>]

I know that there was a tarball at ftp://ftp.lettere.unipd.it/pub/lupus -
apparently it is still there. I imagine there is a CVS tree somewhere, but I
don't know where. Paolo?

Charles McCN

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Victor Tsaran wrote:

  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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