Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:16:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com> To: jkh@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Some ideas for accessibility in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199709252316.SAA00219@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net>
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(These are just ideas, I can't implement them because I have no access to any of these alternate devices). 1) Patching the syscons and pcvt drivers to accept *input* from a serially-connected alternate input device and display on the standard display (a sort of "hybrid console"). For the functions needing two keys (e.g. VT switching), there should be an option in the kernel config file to only require one key. 2) Patch the console drivers to display on the normal console and take input from either the keyboard or a user-specified device but also shunt all output to a serial port (for speech synthesizers) 2a) Utilize a speech synthesizing driver as an LKM which would utilize the user's existing sound card (preferably loaded in the 3rd stage boot) 3) Changing the X server to accept text from a non-keyboard input device (i.e. alternate keyboard, etc.) 4) Patching the console drivers to allow larger text for people with vision problems. 5) If the user selects it, use either simplified boot messages or sounds to signify which stage of the boot process has been reached. (Any more ideas?)
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