Hello Fellow Listers:

Okay, unless I miss my guess, this whole discussion no doubt got started 
courtesy of an item in Dean Martineau's Top Ten Tidbits for Thursday, 
December 4th; specifically, item 10 which gave the following link regarding 
the new accessibility features envisioned for Windows 7, the operating 
system slated to replace vista:

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/ff.asp

Did anyone happen to read far enough down the website and notice the blog 
response posted by GRINSER? In case not, I've copied it below.

Has anyone, by chance, actually heard of this magical mother board which is 
apparently running a screen-reader from BIOS? Admittedly, as regards 
accessibility, we almost have it all now with the screen-readers available 
to us, but we will only have true 100% parity when we get audio at the same 
time that the sighted get video, i.e., from boot-up via the BIOS.

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:13 AM

by GRINSER

re: Accessibility in Windows 7

It would be nice to have some high-dpi or audio support when booting into 
safe mode indeed.
The problem is when you're pressing F8 and choosing in which mode to start, 
it is the motherboard constructor who manage that, my friend has a 
motherboard that talks to him through the whole boot process or when error 
popup, that's really great even for me because I can check other thing 
without having to wait on the screen for the next "message/error"

As far as I can see there is no such thing, that is a really important 
feature that is missing. Maybe there is some obscure shortcut but it isn't 
showed in the properties menu, which should be easily visible and 
customizable.

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John


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