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Fraudulent
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:28 pm    Post subject: accessibility during install Reply with quote
I have a support technician friend who is blind and wonders if there is a
way to have his braiile stuff work during a manual install of XP.

/m
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Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:04 am    Post subject: Re: accessibility during install Reply with quote
You need to be more specific. If these are connected to third party
applications he installs in XP in order to enable such external functions,
the answer is likely no but he should check with the app maker as this
wouldn't be an XP feature or issue. Other than that, I'm not sure what
specific functions are talking about.

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I have a support technician friend who is blind and wonders if there is a
way to have his braiile stuff work during a manual install of XP.

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Sharon F
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:16 am    Post subject: Re: accessibility during install Reply with quote
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:28:12 +0100, Fraudulent wrote:

Quote:
I have a support technician friend who is blind and wonders if there is a
way to have his braiile stuff work during a manual install of XP.

/m

I agree with Michael. Unless the braille program allows for this kind of
use (runs on its own outside of the operating system), it will not be
available for setup.

There is a command switch that can be used with winnt.exe (the setup file
for XP that is in the i386 folder and that is to be run from a dos command
prompt). "winnt.exe /a" will enable Accessibility Options during setup.

I've never used this switch so don't know how extensive the support would
be or if another person needs to be present to answer a prompt before the
options kick in. Text-to-speech is the accessibility feature that would be
useful for your friend but I don't know if it's supported during the setup
process. While text-to-speech is a part of XP it's a new addition and not a
part of the base accessibility options that have been included with
previous versions of Windows.

I've seen it mentioned in several books and in some articles such as this
one: http://www.techtutorials.com/tutorials/xp/xp_install_methods.shtml
There's never very much detail about running setup in this manner. Just
passing mention of its existence.

Perhaps preparing an answer file and running an "unattended setup" would be
an alternative that would work? If you search technet or the MS Knowledge
Base for unattended setup, you'll get plenty of hits for articles
describing this process.

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