Re: O.T.: A friend needs info on screen readers history for her thesis
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Chris Mullins
Hi
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In the early 80's I used a German made, non-software based screen reader called Frank Audio Data to access Dos on IBM PC XT machines. The original was a replacement PC keyboard with the addition of horizontal and vertical slider controls topped with read buttons. Due to the screen in those days being 25 x 80 character cells, the sliders gave you tactile feedback and this, combined with audio output from the hardware provided excellent screen orientation. A later model retained the sliders in two separate units which worked alongside the standard PC keyboard. I found it extremely difficult to transition from DOS to Windows after working in an environment where I knew exactly how the screen looked to being unable to form a mental image of the screen layout. Cheers Chris
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of erik burggraaf Sent: 29 September 2018 14:46 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] O.T.: A friend needs info on screen readers history for her thesis Hi going back farther still, the Apple 2E in the late 70s and early 80s had the text Tucker screen reader with the echo Cricket speech synthesizer. You can actually download be accessible mess Apple 2 emulator and see it working in action today if you want to. On September 28, 2018 4:55:49 PM "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@...> wrote: No, they go back further than dos. The comodore 64 ran cp/m, and it had a screen reader too, so screen reading packages didn't start with dos. On 9/26/2018 10:36 AM, Ervin, Glenn wrote: Well, they go back as far as DOS, there's a lot of brands.
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