Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:07:53 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Elias_St=C3=A5hlberg?= <elias.stahlberg@harrastenurkka.fi> To: accessibility@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd installer and blind users Message-ID: <7d661930-5b50-47b3-b069-f5ebe9282726@harrastenurkka.fi> In-Reply-To: <003101dc148b$c6d15710$54740530$@gmail.com> References: <eced9f61-9994-46c0-8d92-92339adefe02@harrastenurkka.fi> <003101dc148b$c6d15710$54740530$@gmail.com>
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Can you tell me more about your environment, do you use orca, what desktop environment do you use? Also about the software you use. I have a long experience with Linux and I was thinking of using a pure window manager, e.g. i3 On 8/24/25 3:12 AM, Tom Moore wrote: > Hi, > I am a blind user of FreeBSD and here's what I have done to get the system installed on to my machine. > I used a live system called Mfsbsd that I could ssh into and then used bsdinstall from there. > Afterwards I had to upgrade 14.2 to 14.3 with freebsd-update and this worked fine. > Have any more questions I'll help as best as I can. > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-accessibility@FreeBSD.org <owner-freebsd-accessibility@FreeBSD.org> On Behalf Of Elias Ståhlberg > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 6:15 AM > To: freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org > Subject: freebsd installer and blind users > > hi > > I am a completely blind user, is there screen reader support in the > freebsd installation, and like Debian, I have the impression that > improvements to accessibility are being made, at what stage they are. I > don't expect a polished, beautiful user experience, I am a nerd who > lives on the command line and in vim > > > >help
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