Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imagingprogram?

22 Nov 2008

      well, if you have a hardware synthesizer, you could boot from either a 
floppy or bootable cd into dos and run a screen reader for dos such as jaws 
for dos, or vocaleyes or asap.
the image for dos is extremely accessible.  I haven't tried this yet, but i 
suspect that a bootable linux cd could be made up with one of the linux 
screenreaders such as brlterm? not sure of its name, the one that works with 
braille displays, or speakup, or one of the others.
some of the linux screen readers will work with software synthesizers as 
well as hardware.
hope this helps.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Matzura" 
To: "Blind sysadmins list" 
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer 
imagingprogram?
...
Philip, this all sounds great, just one thing you neglected to
clarify, or I didn't get, and that is, what's the accessibility like
if you have to restore a boot drive from scratch?  In other words, my
PC came up dead, hard disk was replaced, now I have lots of images and
things, what do I do with them, or, more accurately, what do I do to
prepare them properly so they speak when needed?
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:43:45 -0500, you wrote:
...
Take a look at terabyteunlimited.
I just got their image for windows program.  if you buy the total package,
which I did, it costs about $49 u.s.
you get a boot manipulation program called bootitng, image for windows,
image for dos, and image for Linux along with a set of utilities to make
installing operating system easier.
I just tried it, and I was able to make an image of my dual boot system, 
dos
on the first partition and windows on a logical partition. I restored them
to a different drive and I was able to boot the new drive.
everything is extremely jaws accessible, even the image for dos program.
Their documentation needs a little work, but if you play around, it can
work.  Their tech support seems to be pretty good.
The company sponsors some news groups for their products too.
I highly recommend them.
I did all this not only to help me at home, but to solve a problem of
imaging all our computers at work.
by the way, you can download a trial version of their products to try out.
so far, I am impressed.
My next project is to make a bootable cd with dos and jaws for dos in a 
ram
drive.
if you need any more info, just ask.
Phil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" 
To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" 
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?
...
Hello,
My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an
accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, 
but
since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i
could
batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i
got
it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i 
think
that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted
ntfs,
i'd like for this to be doable.
Thanks.
Dave.
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