Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!wtm From: mattioli@took.enet.dec.com (John R. Mattioli) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: pal Message-ID: <15975@bunker.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 90 17:20:56 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: mattioli@took.enet.dec.com (John R. Mattioli) Distribution: misc Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 39 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference Index Number: 12061 In article <15785@bunker.UUCP>, Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) writes... > > Screen Reader comes made with a lot of pre-written Pal(s). > Here's a question regarding screen reader and it's pals. My question basically boils down to who does the programming? Obviously, IBM can't know all of the applications you want to use. If they provide pal code for use with lotus 1-2-3, and I like Supercalc5 better (which I actually do) do I have to go in and rewrite all the pals? Next question: I know that screen reader can do all sorts of fansy screen monitoring, but can it also monitor the keyboard and have special programs associated with each key (kind of like a macro processor but more complicated). For example, if I'm running a program on a remote system and using the pc as a terminal, and if the application on the remote system has a very different keyboard definition, can screen reader be made to work. Example: say the numeric keypad 2 is redefined to put the cursor at the end of the line or maybe, in a word processor, the keypad 8 is used to justify a block of text. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Mattioli Most improved skier (american blind skiers association 1989) and humble to! (DEC E-NET) TOOK::MATTIOLI (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!TOOK.dec.com!MATTIOLI (ARPA) MATTIOLI@TOOK.dec.com MATTIOLI%TOOK.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com (US MAIL) John Mattioli 550 King St. LKG2-2/BB9 Littleton, Ma. 01460