[ros-dev] no replies about making reactos accessible for the blind

[Dick]

why not? i am not a programmer myself, but maybe there is a 
workaround(emulating graphics mode but not displaying them for example), 
maybe things that are not possible in microsoft windows can be made 
possible in the windows-environment reactos creates

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote:

> This is not Linux, Windows software can NOT run with no graphics ;)
> 
> El mié., 14 nov. 2018 17:36, Dick <dick at deds.nl> escribió:
>       of course, you are right. but like in linux, much software can
>       be ran
>       headless without graphics.
>
>       On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Erkin Alp Güney wrote:
>
>       >> the main problem of screenreaders is they have to find out
>       what
>       >> developers had done to make an app accessible. for example,
>       when a
>       >> screenreader give access to firefox version 40 that same
>       version will
>       >> probably run into problems when running version 60, the
>       screen reader
>       >> needs to be updated and adjusted to the changes made in the
>       app.
>       >> Reactos is an os built from the ground. what i think would be
>       helpfull
>       >> is to do it the other way this time: built functionality into
>       the os
>       >> to display just text on braille displays instead of graphics
>       for
>       >> example. when the accessibility is fully built into the os
>       updated
>       >> apps will have much less influence because the os itself is
>       doing the
>       >> tasks needed to make everythign accessible. I think it is a
>       much
>       >> harder job to build this into a fully finished os than to
>       include such
>       >> features in an os that is still in heavy development.
>       >
>       > Some software will not work that way because they supply UI
>       not text,
>       > just images. That kind of software will not work with
>       screenreaders nor
>       > hi-contrast unless it is explicitly programmed for.
>       >
>       >
>       >
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