changing bios settings, without eyes, how?

[Alex Snow]

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I've heard that an opticon is good for doing stuff like this if you 
know what print letters are shaped like.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 
10:07:54AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Has anyone thought of a device that was like an eye that could just see screens
> and speak what was on them.  Something you could put up to any screen anywhere.
> Just an idea of mine that I don't have the knowledge time for.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ryan Mann" <rmann at rmisp.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: "cris" <filastin48 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?
> 
> 
> > 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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