Re: [orca-list] minimal boot-time setup for audio-based interaction?

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Has yasr had any love in the past decade? Has Mike been maintaining it?
I'm not aware that's so.

Jude DaShiell writes:
> Does anyone know how yasr is with dependencies?  So far as I know that
> needs configuration and doesn't work with soft synthesizers so a
> hardware synthesizer would be needed to use it.  I never did manage to
> get yasr or gentoo working but have had much good luck with other stuff
> that's available.
>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 08:54:33
> > From: Janina Sajka via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> > Reply-To: Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>
> > To: Rich Morin <rdm cfcl com>
> > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] minimal boot-time setup for audio-based interaction?
> >
> > If you're looking for a minimally functional setup, then I would say
> > Orca is out as it requires far more by way of dependencies than Speakup,
> > or especially Fenrir.
> >
> > My view for new installations has long been to get the system
> > functioning with speech and/or braille plus secure networking. In the
> > case of a vps hosted machine we can, of course, also dispense with
> > native accessibility support and rely on a minimal install with ssh
> > access.
> >
> > Once that's working, the rest can be installed as needed.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Rich Morin writes:
> > > A recent thread (Which GUI environment works best with Orca?) is coming very close to a question I've 
> > > been pondering recently: How to define a minimal boot-time setup audio-based interaction?  That is, it 
> > > should allow a blind user to boot and operate any Linux system, as long as a keyboard and audio output 
> > > are available.
> > >
> > > This would allow the user to get started on a freshly-installed system, make any desired configuration 
> > > changes, and then add packages such as BRLTTY, Emacspeak, etc.  By way of background, I'm mostly 
> > > interested in supporting this on hardware platforms such as the Raspberry Pi and commodity PCs.
> > >
> > > I had thought that this would require a specifically console-based screen reader such as Fenrir, but it 
> > > sounds like Orca might actually suffice.  Could someone clarify this for me?  Going a bit deeper, what 
> > > other packages (e.g., ALSA, eSpeakNG) would be needed to produce a functional stack for audio-based 
> > > interaction?
> > >
> > > Inquiring gnomes need to mine...
> > >
> > > -r
>
> -- 

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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa