Re: freebsd installer and blind users

Can you tell me more about your environment, do you use orca, what 
desktop environment do you use? Also about the software you use. I have 
a long experience with Linux and I was thinking of using a pure window 
manager, e.g. i3

On 8/24/25 3:12 AM, Tom Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a blind user of FreeBSD and here's what I have done to get the system installed on to my machine.
> I used a live system called Mfsbsd that I could ssh into and then used bsdinstall from there.
> Afterwards I had to upgrade 14.2 to 14.3 with freebsd-update and this worked fine.
> Have any more questions I'll help as best as I can.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-accessibility@FreeBSD.org <owner-freebsd-accessibility@FreeBSD.org> On Behalf Of Elias Ståhlberg
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 6:15 AM
> To: freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org
> Subject: freebsd installer and blind users
>
> hi
>
> I am a completely blind user, is there screen reader support in the
> freebsd installation, and like Debian, I have the impression that
> improvements to accessibility are being made, at what stage they are. I
> don't expect a polished, beautiful user experience, I am a nerd who
> lives on the command line and in vim
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