Hello,
Let me start things out here by saying I'm not a Unix programmer.
I've no overwhelming need, commercial or otherwise, to use the operating system
at all.
I'm a hobbiest, which I suppose is a bit of a rarer breed for BSD than for
something like Linux.
However,, to add interest to the title of hobbiest, I also happen to be a
blind computer user.
Linux provides programs and kernel patches to enable me to use the system
completely, even so far as to listen to the innumerable bootup messages--always
interesting.
However, I've recently discovered OpenBSD by the only way I currently can,
emulation. I'm running it on a VAX provided to me by the work of Bob Supnick
and the SIMH team.
The reason the I386 version of BSD is generally more difficult for me to use
involves the fact that the normal installation program doesn't provide a screen
reader, which is something Linux got right, at least some distributions of it.
What I am interested in here are ways that an OpenBSD system might be made
accessible. Does anyone here have any thoughts on this issue? I'm more than
willing to discuss possible approaches.
Yours,
Zack.
