[BRLTTY] Making postmarketOS blind-accessible

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Sat Aug 22 13:12:54 EDT 2020


> On Aug 21, 2020, at 22:38, Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev at sange.fi> wrote:
> 
> I guess that pmOS kernels don't have virtual console support built in. (It is
> mostly considered to be wasted memory on low-end devices.) This is the number
> one thing to have for any accessibility support.

This seems like a worthwhile question to investigate, so I've been checking up
on it and writing up the results on a wiki page.  So far, it appears that:

> Virtual console support (CONFIG_VT) is required to boot pmOS.
So, it should be supported on any device running the mainline kernel.
That said, problems have been reported (e.g., with version 4.4).
-- https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Accessibility_(Kernel)#Virtual_Console

-r


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