BIOS access for blind users?
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From: ShadowTek on 1 May 2010 19:29 Are there any motherboard manufacturers that make some sort of BIOS interface that blind users can utilize?
From: philo on 1 May 2010 21:19 On 05/01/2010 06:29 PM, ShadowTek wrote: > Are there any motherboard manufacturers that make some sort of BIOS > interface that blind users can utilize? there is a patent for it http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7308405.html but I could not find one in existance
From: ShadowTek on 1 May 2010 21:57 On 2010-05-02, philo <philo(a)privacy.invalid> wrote: > > > > there is a patent for it > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7308405.html > > > but I could not find one in existance That one only addresses accessability via audio output, which is of little benefit to people with Ushers, who have both sight *and* hearing loss. Even so, I hope Mr. Rose follows through on his patent. Now that we are well into the Information Age, with billions of people on this planet, it seems a little odd that this basic need hasn't yet been addressed by someone. I guess I'm just impatient.
From: burt henry on 2 May 2010 01:24 I have not heard of such, but please explain what you want to do. What do you want from your BIOS? Burt On 5/1/2010 6:29 chela, ShadowTek wrote: > Are there any motherboard manufacturers that make some sort of BIOS > interface that blind users can utilize?
From: J. P. Gilliver (John) on 2 May 2010 04:43
In message <slrnhtpeao.o9c.ShadowTek(a)shadowtek.localdomain>, ShadowTek <ShadowTek(a)invalid.invalid> writes: >Are there any motherboard manufacturers that make some sort of BIOS >interface that blind users can utilize? (I've glanced at the Rose patent mentioned later in the thread. I, too, hope something comes of it - though the flowchart figure 2 has a possible error in it - it still seeds to address "the synthesizer" even if one is not present.) The idea of an accessible BIOS, which is still a VH "add-on" for something that is visually-designed, set me thinking: what would a computer designed _from the start_ for unsighted people look like: probably different in shape. Then I thought, I suppose all the "note-takers" and so on answer that question. But do any of them have an accessible BIOS, or do they still have to be connected to a monitor to access that? Is there a pretty common operating system for the unsighted (like Windows, Linux, or MAC are for sighted - I know all of these have some level of accessibility, but they're visual to start with), or do all the note-taker manufacturers "go their own way"? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar(a)T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** "I do not feel obliged to believe that the God who endowed me with sense, reason, and intellect intends me to forego their use". - Gallileo Gallilei |