Luis Carlos
Guys respond to this post and boost if you can. I was thinking about accessibility in lesser-known operating systems and ReactOS was something I don't know the progress of. Maybe because I'm just a guy comprehending what's the accessibility for blind people in those? Are there ways in which those OS will become accessible? I don't know if someone tryed to use a Windows screen reader inside of, or built one from scratch for ReactOS, but maybe that's just me
Mar 6 at 9:05amTWBlue
Show threadCleversonMar 6
@luiscarlosgonzalez As far as I know, ReactOS isn't accessible, nor any lesser know OS. I believe that, to have access to those systems, the best bet nowadays is to buy a Raspberry Pi and use software from the project below:
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/RPITalk/
RPItalk – Raspberry Pi Speech Synthesizer

Show threadLuis CarlosMar 6
@clv1 So it's not? Maybe someone had done some preliminary implementation or something I don't know if anyone has more info because for me it's urgent
Show threadCleversonMar 6
@luiscarlosgonzalez I don't really know for sure; you're beter asking the ReactOS guys directly. In any case, depending on your specific need, you could consider a Linux + Wine solution.
Show threadLuis CarlosMar 6
@clv1 I don't know if blind users had called the developers for accessibility in ReactOS, but maybe that's just me @Tamasg @MutedTrampet @datajake1999 @ZBennoui We want to go beyond those popular OS's Windows, Mac, Linux...
Show threadJake GrossMar 6
@luiscarlosgonzalez @clv1 @Tamasg @MutedTrampet @ZBennoui I wrote a basic screen reader that runs on Windows NT 3.51, and someone got it to run in Wine. It technically runs on ReactOS, however I wasn't able to get it reading anything outside the program's window.
Show threadCleversonMar 6
@datajake1999 @luiscarlosgonzalez @Tamasg @MutedTrampet @ZBennoui Interesting. Does it use an a11y API like MSAA?
Show threadJake GrossMar 6
@clv1 @luiscarlosgonzalez @Tamasg @MutedTrampet @ZBennoui No, it doesn't. It uses Win32 hooks.
Show threadLuis CarlosMar 6
@datajake1999 @clv1 @Tamasg @MutedTrampet @ZBennoui Maybe there's not any API yet or any accessibility API's yet on ReactOS maybe I don't know... Because to me feels interesting and even when big brother is putting more control @rommix0 @pitermach @mckensie If those software and hardware synths could work in ReactOS that could be interesting
Show threadLuis CarlosMar 6
@datajake1999 @clv1 @Tamasg@rommix0 indly.social @MutedTrampet @ZBennoui Maybe there's not any API yet or any accessibility API's yet on ReactOS maybe I don't know... Because to me feels interesting and even when big brother is putting more control @rommix0 @pitermach @mckensie If those software and hardware speech synths will work on ReactOS..