Hi,
Amazingly MacOS version 11.0 Big Sur is an UNIX O3 certified product,
source:
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3668.htm
For practical matters I believe that thee UNIX 03 Production Standard:
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/xym0.htm
is very close if not identical to the POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
So as long as a software is POSIX compliant it should run on MacOS
(and also on any Linux and *BSD).
As a practical example and counter-example this is the case for
PulseAudio but
not for systemd.
As an aside, when writing shell scripts I now use only syntactical
constructs
specified by POSIX, so that they be portable across OS.
Sorry for the digression
Best regards,
Didier
Le 19/02/2021 à 21:59, Chris Brannon a écrit :
"Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi Chris,
Is there a screenreader for Unix?
There are screenreaders for Unix derivatives, like Linux. Some of those
screenreaders are portable to other Unix variants like *BSD and
even Mac OS X (yes it's Unix under the hood). I guess some companies still
hold the trademark on Unix but I'm using it here as a blanket term to
cover all Unix-likes and Unix-derivatives. The focus for BLVUUG is free
Unix-derivatives, so the target isn't Mac OS X users, even though OS X
is BSD under the covers. If someone is doing accessibility stuff with
Solaris (or its several free forks like openindiana), that is also
copacetic.
So yeah, I'm sorry, Unix is kind of nebulous, but I'm aiming for a "big
tent" here.
-- Chris
