Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:41:59 -0700 From: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net> To: Klaus =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <YsdTJxZbhNlHFI3X@phouka1.phouka.net> In-Reply-To: <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> References: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org> <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Klaus Küchemann wrote: > > Am 07.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky org>: > > The only argument I've heard from some non-sighted friends about not using FreeBSD natively is that ooh, MacOSX is so cool. It starts speaking from the start if I press this and this key. Is anyone here working on or wanting such a feature? > > Possibly they didn’t want to be rude and your friends didn't tell you the other argument :-) : according to the corresponding wiki page FreeBSD doesn't natively support any audio output at all on your friends current M1 Mac hardware. > since quite nothing is currently supported you probably will first take over working on the Audio driver …..and of course USB :-) I think a huge benefit that Apple would have is that they might be able to guarantee some sort of audio speaker, period, since they control the hardware that the software runs on. That might be a big ask on FreeBSD, but maybe if there was some relatively ubiquitous assistance hardware, maybe doable. But text-to-speech (and then WHAT language's speech) is a big software chunk, audio layers seems large, and then having to worry about the potential driver issues (while not being able to see-to-hear any potential setup issues) seems huge. Everybody seems happy farming that out to the internet, except on system setup you're not connected to the internet yet. Plus Apple has some deep hooks into the app-stack since you're basically using their toolkit to make a graphical app, so they can guarantee some potential for GUI-textbox-speech, where FreeBSD has a hodgepodge of graphical toolkits (KDE, GTK, Gnome, etc).
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