[BRLTTY] Making postmarketOS blind-accessible

[Rylan Vroom]

Wow, this is a great idea! I've fallen off the *nix bandwagon in
recent years but this sounds like a project / situation that would
rekindle my interest :) It doesn't seem like too many devices are
supported though...

On 8/19/20, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:
> After some informal research and reflection, I've decided that postmarketOS
> is the most promising basis for a blind-accessible, Linux-based cell phone
> operating system.  Developers are working on getting it to support a large
> number of devices (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices), many of
> which are available for very little money.
>
> PostmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux), a popular, but very
> minimalistic Linux variant.  For example, it uses BusyBox to replace the
> functions of more than 300 common commands.  So, postmarketOS should run
> pretty well, even on fairly old cell phones and tablets.
>
> In an effort to get things moving, I've started an Accessibility page in the
> postmarketOS wiki.  The "Packages" section contains entries for plausible
> software packages (e.g., BRLTTY, Fenrir, Lynx, Orca, w3m), including short
> descriptions and porting status.  The "Resources" section contains links to
> other, related pages.
>
> To be clear, I don't expect that the base postmarketOS releases will ever
> contain these packages.  However, there should be a way to create a
> blind-accessible variant or upgrade path.  If you find this notion
> interesting, please check out the (WIP) Accessibility page
> (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Accessibility).  If the page is missing
> a favorite package, please add it yourself or email me so I can add it.
> More generally, feel free to contact me off-list with comments, suggestions,
> etc.
>
> -r
>
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