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Accessibility

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Introduction

There are many types of disabilities and many ways to address them. At the moment, however, this page concentrates on ways to make postmarketOS more accessible to blind and visually impaired users.

Packages

This section describes various software packages which could be useful. The information on porting status is mostly derived from the Alpine Linux Packages page.

BRLTTY

BRLTTY is a "background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated."

Ports for several hardware architectures are listed for the Alpine Linux edge branch.

Fenrir

Fenrir is a "modern, modular, flexible, and fast console screenreader".

No ports are currently listed for Alpine Linux.

Orca

Orca is a "free and open-source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and GTK+, Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications)."

Ports for several hardware architectures are listed for the Alpine Linux v3.12 branch.

Resources

Pine64, PinePhone

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