Wow, that's amazing. We have such a small user base I would not have guessed that there was so much diversity in the circumstances of people using DFly. Don't hesitate to query us on users@ if Orca ever breaks on you, we'll try our best to keep it going.
I would go nuts if I ever lost my sight. I wouldn't be able to write code at a million miles an hour any more :-( -Matt On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I just thought I would post this here to see if there are any other > users of DragonFly BSD that are totally blind. If there are, we could > possibly connect and share experiences and tips. I use Orca which is a > screen reader for the GUI to access my laptop and desktop in DragonFly. > There are console screen readers available, however, I have not tried to > get any of them working yet mostly because Orca can read gui terminals > like mate-terminal xfce4-terminal etc. I performed my installation using > Qemu with the -curses option on a Linux Live cd that had Orca installed. > The -curses option forwards the Qemu output of the DragonFly installer > running in Qemu to Mate Terminal so that I can read it with Orca. I used > the raw format with the target drive in qemu so that I could boot in on > real hardware when done. The workflow is basically use Qemu with Orca on > the live cd to install the system and configure it and set Orca to > autostart. This way, when booting the actual system on real hardware it > comes up talking. >
