On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:08AM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
Hi misc@!
I am looking to understand / enhance the OpenBSD experience for blind users.
Do we have any blind users reading misc that can offer any insight into their
usecases / pain points / work flows / wants? I am sure OpenBSD is lacking on
this front, so use cases in *nix would also be helpful.
I've worked for the GNOME project as a translator some years ago. I
know from the strings I've translated that they worked hard on a11y
(accessibility). I don't use GNOME anymore (except through its most
basic libs, such as GTK+), but I think it's usable under OpenBSD.
A couple of links to get you going:
* https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html.en
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility
KDE has a similar a11y initiative, but it seems less entrenched than
GNOME's one: https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Accessibility.
Even their tutorial suggests using the KDE apps under a GNOME desktop
when using a screen reader:
https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Accessibility/Screen_Reader_Setup#Screen_Readers
Another interesting link I've found, touching on both GNOME and KDE,
but also listing alternatives to GNOME's Orca screen reader:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/.
Hope that helps! Not a blind user here... Also, was hoping someone
more knowledgeable would step in to answer. As far as I can tell,
there is no a11y support in OpenBSD's native console, so it seems blind
users can only use graphical applications under OpenBSD.
