From nobody Tue Mar 28 18:47:39 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-accessibility@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4PmKw41G6vz42LSD for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:47:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c17:6c4b::2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4PmKw33Tf5z4B1K for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:47:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from [10.36.2.154] (unknown [46.212.121.255]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 060822600E0; Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:47:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <171b1481-fe70-0fe7-d5b6-cf3f392d6ec4@selasky.org> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:47:39 +0200 List-Id: FreeBSD accessibility discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-accessibility List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Subject: Re: introduction and testing console screen reader Content-Language: en-US To: Chris Brannon , freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org References: <878rfgddr7.fsf@the-brannons.com> From: Hans Petter Selasky In-Reply-To: <878rfgddr7.fsf@the-brannons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4PmKw33Tf5z4B1K X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/32, country:DE] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 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.