Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

* BRLTTY for Braille displays/Braille terminals

* Fenrir for a userland CLI screen reader

* Orca for GUI screen reader and you'll want to start Orca before you start other apps so it can do some magic with accessibility export variables and ATSPI stuff. I don't understand it and I still do the ritual of putting export linux-a11y = 1 in .profile just in case. That's not the exact variable but the list is out there somewhere.

* cups-filters for printing to Braille embossers/printers. I think just about every major distro has the embosser drivers now. Linux can even use imagemagick to convert images into Braille graphics. Meanwhile Windows doesn't even come with embosser drivers, let alone printing graphics to them. If only GUI Linux accessibility were better. It's already got a really good base. Braille support for just about any display you have and all. Not very good TTS engines though. Anyway sorry for making this longer than just list of stuff.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: