Reference:
> From: des des.no (Dag-Erling
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:35:25 +0100
> Message-id: <8664avcjqa.fsfdwp.des.no>
Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote:
> "Julian H. Stacey" <jhsflat.berklix.net> writes:
> > One problem: (last I knew), FreeBSD only has a
graphical installer,
> > not Ascii text mode. So you might need somoene
else to install it
> > for you.
>
> On the contrary, FreeBSD does not have and has never
had a graphical
> installer. Sysinstall is text-based and is rumored to
work well with
> screen readers.
Depends what one means & understand by graphics. There
was previous
discussuion on topic of FreeBSD installer use by the blind
many
years back: a short while after Jordan gave us the nice
colourful
boxed (what I call graphical) installer, a blind person
wrote in &
asked if there was a plain text installer, his answer was
no,
get someone else to install. It'll be in webed mail
archives.
As the BSD installer is not a pixel X11 Xwindows graphics
installer,
just ascii strings with escape sequences for pcterm/ vt100
whatever,
maybe modern blind equipment might cope with (ie ignore)
sequences .
The cursor does rather jump around during the install,
whereas a
clasical command line tool does not, so it may be harder to
retain
everything in human memory though.
A near blind German girl (Linux user I think) told me in
English long ago:
- Braile transducers for the blind cost a fortune,
- Did limited mapping of 1 line of 40 chars to a pixel map
for fingers.
- Braille varies completely between countries (ie far more
than just umlauts),
so hinders import competition to force price down, so
even if Jim Vaglia
has a device that copes, it may not be usable for
others.
A case report from Jim would be interesting, if he can try
it, & report
back, FreeBSD could document it to web site for next
enquirer.
Jim, if no luck with the FreeBSD installer, try NetNSD
installer.
--
Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen
http://berklix.com
Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer
Kopfschmerz.
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