Re: [orca-list] orca and pfsense?

[jeremy <icu8it2 gmail com>]

Having had interest in trying to get YASR up and going on a virtual 
image of free BSD, it was mainly that either YASR seriously needs 
updating both in its documentation in how to do an install and also, 
work maybe in getting it to work better along side one of the speech 
servers. The rout a friend and I had taken was to attempt to get it 
working with the emacs speech server so it could talk to espeak, but 
even though it actually had working speech and the beginnings of an 
ability to read stuff on the screen, we were never able to get any of 
the YASR navigation commands to work. One larger problem was that after 
using it for a few minutes, you'd sometimes lose the ability to stop the 
speech once it had started which would end up leading to you having to 
exit out of YASR. This exiting would often times cause the vm to majorly 
freeze.
Not one for going and tinkering around with makefiles and such, I can't 
recall all the steps he used to properly configure the emacspeak or 
whatever to get it talking with YASR, but once we started having issues 
with the machine freezing, it became sorta frustrating, not being able 
to really find any updated documentation on how to properly set things up.

I to would love an accessible screenreader for the console, even if it 
were only good enough to read output for just a command or two, so I'd 
think some sort of work on YASR would be the best thing to start looking 
at for Pfsense.
That would be amazingly awesome, for sure.
Pretty cool stuff. :)
Take care.
On 4/28/2016 2:13 PM, tim wrote:
> Nice! so heres the response I received. I'll add in Anyone having more 
> experience with freebsd than me chime in I never used it I don't believe.
>
>   Hi Tim,
> So the installation part is definitely the issue here? I got the owner 
> of company behind pfSense interested in addressing this topic. Can you 
> share specifics what the main issue is?
>
> Thanks!
> Ivor
>
>
>
> On 04/28/2016 12:39 AM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > You cannot use Orca on the pfSense live image.
> > pfSense is console mode only - no desktop and thus not possible to 
> > run orca.
> > I would love to be able to install pfsense (I've used it before but
> > needed sighted help to install) - post installation config and
> > management of the firewall is done via the pfSense web gui.
> > If there is a console screen reader that will run under fbsd it might
> > be possible to implement accessibility into the pfsense live image.
> > Speakup is a console screen reader but Linux only since it's running
> > in kernel space.
> >
> > For this reason I dropped pfsense and configured my own firewall from
> > scratch using Debian as my base.
> > My debian based firewall/router is running text mode only and I use
> > speakup on the console.
> > However, I usually manage it via ssh though but it's nice to have the
> > opportunity to use the console if required for troubleshooting etc.
> >
> >
> > On 28 April 2016 at 03:27, tim <isfeldt gmail com> wrote:
> > >      Hello, so from my understanding, Pfsense is bassed on freeBSD, 
> > > and there
> > > is a port of orca available for it.  I've downloaded the latest 
> > > version,
> > > pfSense-CE-2.3-RELEASE-i386.iso, and am in contact with there 
> > > support to see
> > > if I can install pfsense on this box if i choose and then install orca,
> > > anyone had luck with this so far? Here is one response I received 
> > > from them
> > > about this issue.
> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > Just to point out, pfSense is actually based on FreeBSD, not Linux. 
> > > I do see
> > > there's a orca port for FreeBSD however I have not tried it. 
> > > However, you
> > > don't want to do anything via the console interface since it's 
> > > without any
> > > kind of GUI in KDE / gnome sense, instead it's managed remotely via 
> > > web GUI.
> > >
> > > So assuming you have orca on your operating system or any kind of
> > > accessibility ready, all you need to do is open pfSense management 
> > > IP in
> > > your local browser. Then all management is being done via Web GUI. 
> > > Can orca
> > > or any accessibility reader help there?
> > >
> > > The only issue I see here the installation process. However, if you 
> > > lets say
> > > purchase preinstalled appliance, you will have pfSense already 
> > > preinstalled.
> > > Other option is to download our preinstalled virtual machine for 
> > > VMware if
> > > you have Gold Subscription. Third option is perhaps to have a friend 
> > > install
> > > pfSense for you. I'm still trying to understand what exactly is 
> > > causing the
> > > main issue here, so let me know if I'm on the right track!
> > >
> > > Please feel free ask more questions.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Ivor
> > > My main issue is, if I boot that iso from a cd/usb drive, I'm 
> > > assuming I'd
> > > have to attempt and somehow install orca then go from there? Thanks 
> > > all!
> > >
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