Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/07/04:40:57
Most developers also don't know when they're
writing something that will work on systems using speech synthesizers
and screen reader systems. Evidence of this can be seen in the computer
stores, or I should say cannot be seen.
It costs very little extra to put an extra line of writing on
shrink-wrapped software packages that states "useable with speech
systems" or "not useable with speech systems". This makes that
information
unavailable to salespeople, and for those who write stuff
that ends up shrink-wrapped my reaction has
been to mostly avoid commercial software places for that reason.
I don't like to waste my time finding that kind of
information out because I do alot of that with shareware and
I don't have to arrange transportation to try out the shareware.
As far as most speech synthesizer systems and screen readers are concerned
which run under msdos, with a few noteable exceptions like Artic's
symphonix 200 synthesizer most can operate in anything from an xt to a
pentium. Not good to try running them on dec rainbow computers,
since most of these systems expect some flavor of ansi or
vt100 as a base terminal interface.
One final suggestion for anyone thinking about marketing
software after the appropriate labeling described above.
Use Egghead for the stuff that will work, all anyone has
to do with Egghead is call them up and transact business over the phone.
CompUSA might be another possibility for this for that same reason.
jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
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