Re: Screen Readers and the UNIX Operating System

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Darren Burton writes:
 > Our agency just received a referral about a blind person whose employer
 > uses a UNIX Operating System to run their invoice system and database
 > system
 Most likely, the person can access the systems over a network like ethernet.
 I am accessing the oracle database using a telnet session to the unix
 box over ethernet. I am currently using vocal eyes, a dos based screenreader
 and ncsa telnet, a free telnet client for this task.
 One can use any dos screen reader and any dos based telnet package
 that is speech friendly.
 It is however likly that the invoice system is a client-server type system
 where the client program is running on the pc as a windows application
 and just the server component runs on unix.
 Having something like emacs with emacsspeak will probibly not be the answer.
 For the windows client, one will have to test the various windows 
 screenreaders
 with the specific invoice application to see how well it works.
There might be a number of other options.
Mail me privately with more product info and i will try to help.
regards, Willem