changing bios settings, without eyes, how?

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Maybe it's a matter of having a speech device that plugs into an existing
video card in either an AGP port, or PCI or EISA.
Some video cards come with places to plug in more memory, but I don't know
if this kind of access would work for such a speech chip.
Glenn.

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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
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Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?


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I had thought about creating one of those. that'd be really cool to
have.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:43:53PM -0500, Ryan Mann wrote:
> Has anybody thought of creating a device that would hook up to a
> computer's monitor port and speak whatever a sighted person would see on
> the screen?  A monitor connects to an AGP port and gets information.
> It seems like it would be possible to create another device that connects
> to the AGP port and gets the same information, except this device would
> speak the information instead of showing it on the screen.  The device
> would probably need to be a computer itself so it can be programmed to
> pronounce words correctly.
>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
>
> > Hi, to access the bios the most helpful tool is a braille printer such
as a
> > braille blazer.  You can sometimes use a print screen command to print
the
> > entire screen to a braille page and follow it through the menus and to
see
> > the options and what they are set to.
> > It takes alot of time and paper to do it right, but the method does work
in
> > alot of cases.
> > If you don't have a braille printer then all you have is sighted help to
> > depend on.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "cris" <filastin48 at hotmail.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:52 PM
> > Subject: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> > How can a blind person change the settings of the bios without sighted
> > assistance?  I know that this subject was discussed zillions of times
> > before, but are we close to a time when this will be possible?
> > Cheers,
> > Cris
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