There's also Orca which you can use with a terminal.
It is true that there were a lot of commercial screen readers for DOS
when DOS was the only operating system used on PC's, at least for the
most part. I don't think there are any screen readers for DOS now, and
if there were, they'd focus on those applications people run from the
DOS command line, leaving the GUI screen readers to work with the GUI
applications people use, which isn't unlike what we have now on Linux.
I also don't understand the statements about scripting in Linux. Your
BASH script, assuming BASH is the shell you're running, can be just as
simple as any DOS batch file. DOS batch files couldn't do much more than
branch and loop around command line calls, and if that's all you want to
do in BASH then you can definitely do that. Is the problem here that in
DOS you had commands named del, ren and copy, and in Linux those same
commands are called rm, mv and cp. If so, that should be a pretty easy
transition to make.
On 07/28/2015 05:37 PM, Hart Larry wrote:
I like your comments Sam. And yes while there seems much more
developement of Linux tools than DOS, why is it we have many less
screen-reader options? In a non-graphical console, I count only these
screen-readers:
Jupiter
Speakup
YASR
Maybe emacsspeak
WB and clifox
Unfortunately Speakup seems to be an only choice I have with a DecTalk U
S B? Jupiter worked with my older DEC PC. At least many of DOS
screen-readers were commercial-and-they had lots of features, such as
ajustable pronunciation dictionaries. So in these cases a screen-reader
is both a comfortable listening as well as typing experience. And no,
Sam, after nearly 9 consecutive years in strictly Linux, I never have
been able to understand-and-jump from writing simple DOS batch files to
understanding nor writing Linux scripts or aliases. In DOS the commands
seemed understandable to a non-programmer. So while these days I only
run DOS from Linux, I can certainly understand-and-appreciate why some1
would want to remain in mostly DOS. Thanks once again for
listening--and-yes I understand if I were able to created, I would be
able to enjoy dreams-and-inhancements on this Debian machine such as an
easier mp3editor, or create software to normalize videos in a directory.
Hart
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