Re: introduction and testing console screen reader

Hi Chris!

I'm glad to hear you got things working.

Yes, there is some room for improvement, and all comments and patches 
are welcome!

There should be more blind computer programmers, because one day some 
terribly bright light may appear in the sky and loads of people may 
become blind in a second. I've already made a deal with another blind 
person to commit the VT screen reader patches to FreeBSD in case of such 
a devestating event ;-)

--HPS

On 3/28/23 18:47, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a blind person who has used Unix in some form or other since the
> 90s, when I got my first shell account.  In 2000, I started running
> Linux on my own hardware and I've used it exclusively since then.
> I've talked about trying FreeBSD on real hardware for a while now.  I
> recently learned that there is a console screen reader in development,
> and that was the encouragement I needed to install it on some bare metal.
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD and rebuilt the kernel with the vt patch that I
> found on review.freebsd.org.  I've also compiled vtspeakd.
> It works!  I was able to log in at my console and mess around, with
> spoken feedback.
> I'm not able to review the screen, so there's plenty of possibility for
> improvement, but this looks like a promising first step.