On 2017-04-17 15:09, Eric Oyen wrote:
well, when I had a ppc machine here, having a working box was always
the must have. However, that has changed over the last 7 years. Now,
what I need is an accessible installation image as well as an
accessible running platform (this means screen reader and braille
support). There are a number of Linux packages that fill the bill,
even on the PPC platform. These include: ORCA (for the X desktop),
BrlTTY (for the console side of things), and some others.
Unfortunately, there appears to be no ports whatsoever for these to
make OpenBSD (or any flavor of BSD) accessible to the blind on ANY
platform. Also, my recent exchange with theo wasn't encouraging either
(yeah, talk about personalities!). So, unless someone who can code is
willing to port some accessibility over to the BSD ecology, there are
going to be a rather significant number of blind users who will never
get the experience they need to be good systems admins (unless you
want to count OS X or windows in that).
Hi Eric,
Regarding ports you're missing (also remember to check the OPENBSD-WIP
repository for them, that's
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/) - what about
either maintain the port yourself, or promise the world a bounty for
providing it.
Tinker
still, having the PPC packages would be a good thing as my Braille
Sense U2 is mostly PPC/ARM based (right now, it uses windows CE 6,
which is effectively end of Lifed). Having that device brought into
the modern (and more secure) world would be desirable.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand: I am not sure exactly which
chipset the Braille Sense U2 is using and the company that makes it
won't reveal that info. So, I guess I have to reverse engineer it in
order to find out. Its that or spend another $6k on yet another device
(which I don't have btw). so, am I (and millions of others like me)
deserving of a secure computing environment? Yes we are! Do any of us
have access to the development environments for the BSD architecture
to create what we need? not really. Linux, OS X , (and god forbid!)
windows have better track records. Still, there are those working the
problem, but we are so damned few.
Anyway, enough of my rant. I only got involved in this conversation
because someone else posed the question about the latest release
packages for PPC (or the current lack of them). Ah well. Asked and
answered on that point, at least.
-eric
