speakup and the sonar system?

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi all
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:19:06AM EST, Erik Heil wrote:
> Hi Greg.  I don't know if you have access to a hardware synth, but here's 
> an idea.  I wonder if its possible to install Window Eyes, tell it no 
> speech during installation and specify your HW synth for its runtime 
> configuration? That way if its purely a sound card issue, you would in 
> theory have access to the Windows GUI running within the context of the 
> Wine environment. As far as that game you described, doesn't that require 
> Flash? That's another story, but you might have to install that also, 
> unless Wine includes a version of it.

Unfortunately, WinEyes or JAWS will never work. What these two screen readers
rely on, is a video intercept driver between the driver and windows. This has
to be loaded when Windows boots, and since Wine is mainly there for applications
to get the standard Windows functions, I don't think this is possible. Wine
would probably have to have a way to load these intercept drivers when X starts
so it can read the windows.

I could be totally wrong however, but that is how I understand it.

Luke