From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 15492382478; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:59:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [216.252.162.32]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB08C380B1D for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:59:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ( [2602:3f:e0f9:dc00::2]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4815d46b (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:59:54 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Brannon To: "Glenn K0LNY" Cc: Subject: Re: announcing: Blind and Low Vision Unix Users Group References: <877dn3sse1.fsf@the-brannons.com> <00a601d706ff$f9682c60$6400a8c0@NUCPPYH> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:59:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <00a601d706ff$f9682c60$6400a8c0@NUCPPYH> (Glenn's message of "Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:44:09 -0600") Message-ID: <871rdbsrhy.fsf@the-brannons.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 List-Id: "Glenn K0LNY" 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