[BRLTTY] Screen reader for mac

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Aug 11 12:01:26 EDT 2009


[quoted lines by james collins on 2009/08/11 at 11:33 -0400]

>I own a MacBook pro laptop, currently running mac os x 10.5.7 I might  
>update to 10.5.8 today. I was just wondering if brltty would be  
>compatible with my mac? Would I run into any problems with installing  
>brltty on my mac? I primarily want the screen reader to run at the  
>command line, I have a program  called terminal on my mac it allows me  
>to run an unix shell. 

It'd be best to get an answer from a user who actually uses a Mac, but I 
believe the answer is yes. BRLTTY isn't (yet) able to read a Mac screen 
directly, but it can be used in conjunction with the screen application. You'll 
have to apply our screen patch, though.

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