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

Tony Baechler tony at baechler.net
Sat Dec 29 16:22:37 UTC 2007


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.

C.M. Brannon wrote:
> I want to write a user-space screenreader for the console.  It would
> run as a daemon process.  The program would read screen output from
> /dev/vcsa.
>   




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