Screenreaders and Retrocomputing
Hi - I've recently designed a device that plugs into an old IBM PC and transmits the contents of the screen over Wi-Fi to a modern computer, currently just via a Telnet connection.
I'm using SecureCRT at the moment to make the connection, and I've been experimenting with using NVDA to read the contents of the screen. Which it does, but - it's somewhat agonizing. The all capitals filenames and the format of a DOS directory listing make it spell everything out character by character, and so typing "DIR" can result in several minutes of narration.
Is there anyone here that may have used a screen reader for DOS back in the day that remembers how things like directory listings were handled?
Any general advice? Can NVDA be configured to make it less...verbose or give it more semantic context to what it is reading so it doesn't spell out words?