Exactly. The BNS, in my particular instance, was just what I had at hand. It could just as easily been any kind of terminal device capable of serial communication. Jacob Schmude writes: > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > Well, strikes me that if you own any kind of terminal capable of communicating at 9600 baud you could take advantage of this sort of access. This includes > second computers, laptops, other notetakers, and whatever else you may have. Perhaps it won't benefit everybody, but IMHO, a little access sure as hell beats > the access we have now., and I'd say access such as this, if it ever was implemented on a PC bios, would be a damn good start to something long overdue. > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:39:56 -0500, Allan Shaw wrote: > > > >... but that's not what you indicated. You indicated that you feel that by > >connecting a Braille"n Speak to your system which allows you to access the > >bios makes that bios perfectly accessible. that's only one option, what if > >you don't happen to own a braille'n speak? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP SDK 3.0 > > iQA/AwUBP+lipZXfgIVMPEIbEQJlcwCfT81FryU8tlEG93Xjt3lc4y1reLsAnifH > gGrQe1kg5RSHqJGzOdR2ZWKF > =lvQC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
