Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:23:41 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45B8690D.20662.CD0D8195@dan.langille.org> In-Reply-To: <200701251256.l0PCuroY074833@fire.jhs.private> References: <000601c73ea8$92242a60$2e01a8c0@2005hp>, <200701251256.l0PCuroY074833@fire.jhs.private>
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On 25 Jan 2007 at 13:56, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > "Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote: > > What assistive technology if any will run on FreeBSD? Is this > > what Mac and Voice Over is based on? Many blind people are mostlikely > > not interested in paying high cost of Windows Vista. Thanks for > > spreading the word among the public if all people with physical > > disabilities and impairments are able to use FreeBSD? Totally, blind > > from birth, totally in the *dark* on this OS. LOL > > One problem: (last I knew), FreeBSD only has a graphical installer, > not Ascii text mode. So you might need somoene else to install it > for you. PC-BSD, which installs FreeBSD, has a graphical installer. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/
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