Talking bios

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Or, as in my case, some comps don't have a PC speaker at all.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx>
To: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>; "Speakup is a screen review system
for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Talking bios


> that would depend on the speaker. some newer machines barely have a pc
> speaker so that would make speach unclear. some older machines I've
> seen have really good pc speakers. another idea would be to pipe the
> speaker through the onboard sound which most computers with onboard
> audio do or to put an external speaker jack for the internal speaker.
> On
> Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:42:11AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> > That's a good point couldn't you make sound come out the pc speaker?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at prince.homelinux.org>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: Talking bios
> >
> >
> > > I guess the issue some people have is that perfect accessibility can
only
> > be achieved by making the bios talk for itself
> > > instead of having to connect a very expensive device to it that can
cost
> > as much as the computer just to get it to talk.
> > > I generally share that opinion, but I will also add that anything at
all
> > is better than nothing.
> > >
> > > PRINCE
> > >
> > > The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> > > > How so?  She can connect a device to her computer, and just like
that
> > the
> > > > BIOS is accessible.  How is that the oposit of accessible?  That is
the
> > > > picture of accessible, as far as I can tell.
> > > >
> > > >  On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Allan
> > > > Shaw wrote:
> > >
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