Hi Chris,
A few years ago I already made a console screen reader. I've called
it screader. It is based on the Screen package:
AUTHORS
Originally created by Oliver Laumann, this latest version was produced
by Wayne Davison, Juergen Weigert and Michael Schroeder.
You can find more about screader at:
http://www.jlemmens.nl/homepage/uk/screader.html
This package was debianized by Denis Barbier <barbier@xxxxxxxxxx> on
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:37:23 +0100.
I don't use screader myself for I've written a driver for my Alva
braille terminal with speech build in.
Regards,
Jos.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:07:10PM -0600, C.M. Brannon wrote:
> Hi list,
> I want to write a user-space screenreader for the console. It would
> run as a daemon process. The program would read screen output from
> /dev/vcsa.
> Screenreader programs also need to be able to intercept keystrokes,
> such as those used for reviewing the screen. Keyboard events can be
> intercepted through the /dev/input/event0 device provided by newer
> 2.6.x versions of the Linux kernel. I think it is possible to prevent
> applications from receiving the screen review keystrokes using the
> EVIOCGRAB ioctl and uinput device. That is, the screen reader daemon
> obtains exclusive access to the stream of keystroke events using
> EVIOCGRAB. Keystrokes that perform review functions are interpreted
> by the screenreader, and the remaining keystrokes are forwarded back
> to the console using uinput.
>
> Given these two features of the Linux kernel, a user-mode console
> screenreader seems viable.
> Is anyone else interested in this effort?
>
> Merry Christmas and happy New Year,
> -- Chris
>
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