Wine

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon Mar 29 09:22:31 EST 2004


I have looked at the Wine docs long enough to see that Wine supports loading auxilliary applications. So, you could load JFW or Win-Eyes along with IE, Theoretically.


Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> Hi, Kris.
> The problem you will find is that anything used in windows emulation via
> wine will not work with gnopernicus  or any other Linux screen reader
> either, and that is just the nature of the beast.
> The only apps that remotely are accessible in wine are those that self voice
> themselves, and it is a pain searching for all the dll files you need for
> wine to emulate those apps.
> I've never tried getting a windows screen reader emulated in wine, but it
> seams like it would be necessary in order to run windows based apps with any
> accessibility.
> 
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