Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-17 Thread Aaron Bieber
On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 14:14:25 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > (sorry, out of thread; copying from the marc.info post so > References/In-Reply-To aren't set) > > > I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for > > blind users. > > While not blind, I occasionally attempt to do some sc

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-17 Thread Tim Chase
(sorry, out of thread; copying from the marc.info post so References/In-Reply-To aren't set) > I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for > blind users. While not blind, I occasionally attempt to do some screenless testing with accessibility-tech on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linu

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-15 Thread Dumitru Moldovan
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:02:47AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: As far as I know, the only software we have for blind people (and not just people with very poor eye sight) is misc/brltty. The above might be true only for console applications. GNOME has support both for low vision users and blind u

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-05-14, Marc Espie wrote: > As far as I know, the only software we have for blind people > (and not just people with very poor eye sight) > is misc/brltty. > > misc/screen also has support in the form of the shm flavor, > which hooks to misc/brltty > > The main issue for this kind of thing

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-14 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
aa...@bolddaemon.com (Aaron Bieber), 2019.05.10 (Fri) 16:05 (CEST): > I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind > users. :flan_thumbsup: > Do we have any blind users reading misc that can offer any insight > into their usecases / pain points / work flows / wants? I v

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2019-05-14, Marc Espie wrote: > We also have (had?) a speech synthesis system in > audio/festival We deleted that. Somebody would need to create a new port for a more recent release. > I don't think we have any other speech synthesis open source > software in the ports tree. There's audio/

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-14 Thread STeve Andre'
On 5/14/19 5:02 AM, Marc Espie wrote: As far as I know, the only software we have for blind people (and not just people with very poor eye sight) is misc/brltty. misc/screen also has support in the form of the shm flavor, which hooks to misc/brltty The main issue for this kind of thing is of

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-14 Thread Marc Espie
As far as I know, the only software we have for blind people (and not just people with very poor eye sight) is misc/brltty. misc/screen also has support in the form of the shm flavor, which hooks to misc/brltty The main issue for this kind of thing is of course testing. This was done over 10 ye

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-13 Thread Nemo Nusquam
On 05/13/19 08:49, Aaron Bieber wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 11:24:57 +0300, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:08AM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote: Hi misc@! I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind users. Do we have any blind users reading misc th

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-13 Thread Aaron Bieber
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 11:24:57 +0300, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:08AM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote: > > Hi misc@! > > > > I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind users. > > > > Do we have any blind users reading misc that can offer any insi

Re: Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-13 Thread Dumitru Moldovan
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:08AM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote: Hi misc@! I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind users. Do we have any blind users reading misc that can offer any insight into their usecases / pain points / work flows / wants? I am sure OpenBSD is la

Blind OpenBSD users

2019-05-10 Thread Aaron Bieber
Hi misc@! I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind users. Do we have any blind users reading misc that can offer any insight into their usecases / pain points / work flows / wants? I am sure OpenBSD is lacking on this front, so use cases in *nix would also be helpful.