yep. looks like I need to come up to current then. 4.7 is definitely a little out of date. I might have to set it up in a vmware session on the linux box and see if I can pipe the console to an internal serial port and read it with a common comm application. the X display would be a bit harder to deal with without some initial sighted assistance to get things up and running.
I seriously wish I could get OpenBSD working with orca on my powerbook G3 Lombard. I had tried before with the help of another member on here (Super Biscuit) but ran into a few problems, mostly resulting from an issue with ALTIVEC, which isn't on that version of the PPC chipset). -eric On Jul 26, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Peter Hessler wrote: > Hi Eric > > We do seem to have orca in ports: > > Port: orca-3.4.2p0 > Path: x11/gnome/orca > > If this is not up to date, or doesn't work for you, please let us know. > > > On 2012 Jul 26 (Thu) at 13:23:27 -0700 (-0700), Eric Oyen wrote: > :well, > : > :its pretty good in a remote session. I tried installing an X screen reader > :from ports and was met with a number of unsatisfied dependencies. that was > :several months back and I am not sure that things have changed that much. ORCA > :is about the only screen reader that will work reliably, but getting it there > :is a massive load of work hunting down source packages that are not yet in the > :ports tree.
