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

[Mike Gorse]

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).

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Tony Baechler wrote:

> 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.