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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>,
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Caldera licenses Arachne
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:38:17 +0100
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> > Of course they are big DOS users, I know of no options in any GUI-based
OS
> > that'll let a speech syntesizer work.
> > I think that should be implemented if someone (ever) writes a GUI for
> > OpenDOS.
> 
> The main problems would be hows:  How to implement a setup where the
> Speech would be able to recognize what is supposed to be text, and How to
> set up the gui to minimize the amount of graphics, (preferrable to kill
> all graphics, but the catch comes in, some graphics contain words!), and
> How to minimize the amount of information presented where the user isn't
> overwhelmed with everytime being presented at once.  While that would
take
> care of the GUI manager, what about the programs to run under them?

It would be one helluva challenge!!!
Because Micro$oft declared that they'll no longer support DOS, I assume
they'll only support Windows, a GUI!!!
So how do they handle this?
Or do they just don't care about the sight impaired?

	Yeep