console screenreader (using /dev/input and /dev/vcsa)

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

As stated in the subject, we're talking about a console screen reader, 
so that eliminates Gnome.  I did try YASR a very long time ago on I 
think Debian and got errors so I gave up.  I think it said it couldn't 
access the serial port or couldn't find a synthesizer.  This would be 
with a Doubletalk LT and Speakup.  I think I turned off Speakup when I 
was testing but it seemed to make no difference.  I also tried Emacspeak 
without Speakup and yes, it works, but is difficult if you don't use 
Emacs.  Also, it is not a daemon and is useless without Emacs installed.

Mike Gorse wrote:
> 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).