Yes, easier to get to with top posting. Slackware hasn't yet got dosemu2
but archlinux has it in git and since hard drives are interchangeable here
I can run archlinux.
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Are mail replies at the top easier for you to process?
It would be better to move to DOSEMU2 as nobody can really help with the
older version anymore. Do you have the ability to sign up for a GitHub
account? To receive the mails on dosemu2 one has to log on to GitHub and
press "watch" and then "all activity" at the top of of this page:
https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2
Let it know if that turns out to be difficult. Using dumb or terminal mode
would indeed seem the easiest way to have dosemu accessible as those modes
are entirely text based. Are you aware of graphical software for dos that has
accessibility features?
Op 30-03-2021 om 21:59 schreef Jude DaShiell:
Hi, I have cloned stuff from github before and built it on my system. This
distribution is slint. When packages are new, slackbuilds.org may have a
SlackBuild script made for the package so others can install it on slint
and on slackware. Slint is slackware international version and is at
https://slint.fr/. ; All of this work was done in dosemu 1.4.0.8.
I learned sdl exposes no accessibility information at all so it's
unuseable for any screen readers. I thought that was the case and got it
confirmed by a sighted person doing accessibility work on orca. I'm
running dosemu with espeakup and will try it later with provox and tdsr
two other console screen readers.
Better yet to move on up to dosemu2 as well. Thanks for the heads up on
this and if dosemu2 has its own email list I'd like to subscribe to that
one.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Hi Jude,
Op 29-03-2021 om 10:43 schreef Jude DaShiell:
I put a .dosemurc and .mtoolsrc file together since a long-standing
friend
has some dos applications he'd like to run and both of us are blind.
I saw some of your previous messages and I think it is important to
highlight that as you are blind, you are using different equipment than
what previous respondents probably assumed you were using.
This mailing list is barely used anymore by the rest of the DOSEMU user
community and so are all the 1.x versions of DOSEMU. There is now a
GitHub project started by Stas, the DOSEMU 2 project, with versioning to
be 2.x based and interaction went over to the infrastructure that GitHub
is providing. The accessibility consequences of this were most likely
never taken into consideration.
Unfortunately it is not something that can be changed overnight, but I
think it would be appropriate to strive to fix this, especially if you
would be interested in being more involved and/or there might be even
more DOSEMU users in a similar situation.
My proposal would be to set up some simple webpages that are friendly to
screen readers and braille devices as part of the new DOSEMU 2 project
with instructions to install newer packages particularly for
distributions that handle screen readers and braille screens well or at
least the distributions popular among users of such devices. Maybe your
.dosemurc and .mtoolsrc could be provided as well.
There could possibly be an instruction to sign up your e-mail address as
a so-called watcher to the DOSEMU 2 project or maybe we could link this
mailing list so it watches the DOSEMU 2 project. The amount of traffic is
quite significant, on some days only a few messages, but sometimes there
might be over 20 mails a day. Note that you can respond to those messages
by e-mail and the replies will by part of the conversation as usual.
Searching online I found a community on GitHub called Blind Computing.
Maybe we could ask them for advice.
How easy would it be for you to upgrade to a newer DOSEMU if packages are
not provided by your distribution? Which distribution are you using?
What do you think of my proposals regarding the mails?
Here is the GitHub project for DOSEMU 2, I do not know if you can access
it comfortably:
https://github.com/dosemu2
Here is the page on the Blind Computing website about contributing to
their GitHub project:
https://blindcomputing.org/contributing/
Best regards,
Julius
