Re: [orca-list] screenreader for ubuntu's console.

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi Lorenzo,

> That being said, I have communicated in the past with
> the developer of YASR in an attempt to make it a background process that
> can run system-wide, and there is a program that should be able to read
> the login screen, but I couldn't help much because the code used
> functions specific to Solaris I think, and I couldn't quite figure out
> how to change it to run in Linux. 

Do you mean acclogin which comes with the yasr distribution?
If so, then I wrote that and should be able to help port it to Linux.
It's probably the utmp stuff that's Solaris specific.

> If anyone could help with making YASR
> a background process that could either run from an init script or from
> rc.local or similar, I am pretty sure that the developer is aggreeable
> from talking with him. The most important thing would be to keep it
> portable to as many operating systems as possible.
>   

I'll chat with Mike (Gorse) about it.