Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 23:48:12 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, =?UTF-8?Q?Klaus_K=c3=bcchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <ffe4e190-07bd-8873-03f7-e969ea78403a@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <YsdPereWgzPLLMyA@phouka1.phouka.net> References: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org> <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> <YsdPereWgzPLLMyA@phouka1.phouka.net>
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On 7/7/22 23:26, John Kennedy wrote: > 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 ubiqitous Hi, Does Apple support voice-over in its bootloaders too? I think not, so at some point of technical breakage you will be stuck anyway - right? --HPS
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