Re: [orca-list] Making postmarketOS blind-accessible

[Peter Vágner <pvagner pvagner tk>]

Hello,


VoW! Great stuff! We are not alone with this interest. Drew Devault has 
started working on this although it looks as if it has not been accepted 
yet at alpine......



https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/11151



Dňa 20. 8. 2020 o 18:34 Rich Morin napísal(a):
> > On Aug 20, 2020, at 04:26, Peter Vágner <pvagner pvagner tk> wrote:
> >
> > ... I think it would be awesome to get alpine linux with speakup or fenrir to work. Then other things might 
> > be added as needed. I'd say we need to create speech and braille enabled image for Alpine linux similar to 
> > what talking arch is for arch linux. ...
> >
> > We *need* touch screen access on linux before we can seriously consider that as a viable platform.
> >
> > Otherwise we might just use our single board computers e.g. pine 64, raspberry pi... whatever with external 
> > accessories.
> Although I'm interested in the possibility of making Braille Screen Input work on Linux-based cell phones, 
> this isn't a short-term goal.  And, given that none of the touch-based interfaces on Linux cell phones seem 
> to pay any attention to blind accessibility, that's also going to be a slog.
>
> That said, I think that a cell phone, ear buds, and a portable keyboard could provide a "viable platform", at 
> least for the near term.  Having an economical, instant-on, portable computing and communication device could be a real 
> boon to folks who are willing to live with some limitations.
>
> -r
>
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