speakup, 2.6.22, and the way forward

[John Heim]

I think it would be too clumsy  to switch from one screen reader during boot 
to another one during regular use. Maybe some kind of keyboard compatability 
could be worked out but that's likely to break. If you could somehow merge 
the 2 packages, it might work.  Get them maintained by the same person or 
group of people.  That seems even harder than the other solutions.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <daxlinux at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: speakup, 2.6.22, and the way forward


> YASR seems to provide a pretty solid starting point for a userspace
> screen reader. All that needs to be done to make it usable early on in
> the boot process is to switch from using a virtual shell to polling the
> current console. I have talked with Mike and he seems agreeable to the
> idea, and there is even a program that seems to be able to do this in
> Solaris that is available in the CVS version. The main thing to do would
> be to attempt to port this program to Linux and other Unix-like OS's and
> then integrate it into YASR in such a way that YASR uses the console
> polling method rather than the virtual shell that it uses now. This way
> YASR can be started from init.d or a similar startup mechanism rather
> than having to be started after a speechless login. After these changes
> are made, then improvements similar to the stuff we have in Speakup can
> be added.
>
> Live long and prosper,
> Lorenzo
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:46 -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
>> Why don't they adapt yasr or something?
>> If they want user space, that's about as user space as you can get,
>> and I'm sure Michael wouldn't mind.
>>
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