[Blindapple] introduction

Tony Baechler tony at baechler.net
Fri Jul 29 09:36:04 EDT 2005


Hi.  Ah well.  I thought I remembered differently.  I read that it was in 
fact compatible with Textalker and I don't remember it being limited to 
serial devices, but that isn't surprising.  It didn't really take off and I 
can see why if it only does serial.  It was a nice thought though.

At 11:14 PM 7/28/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I have access to this other screen reader, and as far as I can tell, it
>isn't really textalker compatible.  It uses most of the same commands used
>by Textalker, but it is designed to be used with a serial voice device.  It
>won't actually emulate the functionality of Textalker for use with an Echo
>synthesizer.  Thus, the source for this screen reader would not be helpful
>in determining the low-level detection and communication protocols used by
>Textalker.
>Jayson.




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