Links:
console speaker daemon URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35776
kernel support for console screen reader URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35754
base system accessibility wishlist URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility/Wishlist/Base

Contact: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Contact: FreeBSD accessibility discussions <freebsd-accessibility@freebsd.org>

This project aims at providing a very basic screen reader usable in console mode (without a GUI) for FreeBSD. This is an important first step for system administrators using speech to access computers, who previously would have needed a second computer running a terminal emulator to install or configure a FreeBSD server or character-based desktop computer.

The third and fourth quarters of 2022 saw basic design and some feature testing which looks promising, and a detailed call for testing with installation procedure posted.

This project needs help with the following:

Sponsor: NVIDIA Networking (for the kernel development part)