console screenreader (using /dev/input and /dev/vcsa)
Mike Gorse
mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org
Sat Dec 29 17:55:25 UTC 2007
Yasr should theoretically work with FreeBSD, although I haven't tried it
in a long time. If you couldn't get it working, then I'm curious what
problems you had. Emacspeak should also work (as well as Orca if you're
using GNOME).
-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rather than focusing your efforts on a screen reader specific to Linux, why
> not make it more portable? It would be really, really nice to have a screen
> reader that runs under BSD for example. In many ways, I find FreeBSD more
> useful than Linux, especially for servers. I have more Linux experience, but
> I noticed that FreeBSD seems faster on older hardware than Linux 2.4.x. This
> is just a thought. I know there are other screen readers out there but I
> never got them working other than Speakup and my understanding is that it
> would be impossible to get a Linux screen reader to work under FreeBSD
> because of the kernel differences.
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