YASR seems to provide a pretty solid starting point for a userspace screen reader. All that needs to be done to make it usable early on in the boot process is to switch from using a virtual shell to polling the current console. I have talked with Mike and he seems agreeable to the idea, and there is even a program that seems to be able to do this in Solaris that is available in the CVS version. The main thing to do would be to attempt to port this program to Linux and other Unix-like OS's and then integrate it into YASR in such a way that YASR uses the console polling method rather than the virtual shell that it uses now. This way YASR can be started from init.d or a similar startup mechanism rather than having to be started after a speechless login. After these changes are made, then improvements similar to the stuff we have in Speakup can be added. Live long and prosper, Lorenzo On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:46 -0500, Travis Siegel wrote: > Why don't they adapt yasr or something? > If they want user space, that's about as user space as you can get, > and I'm sure Michael wouldn't mind. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
