Vision Accessibility Report 2
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:59:21 UTC
Hello! This is the second report for the "Vision Accessibility" project, https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/vision-accessibility-subsystem-for-freebsd/ FreeBSD provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications. The collection provides tens of thousands of ports; port configuration is a key feature. It is possible to configure a port before the building and installation. The command "make config" uses a text user interface (TUI) to set up port options interactively. Recently low vision users (mainly with cataracts) have requested new features to easily change the colors of the TUI. Several features have been implemented to allow changing colors, for example: a new environment variable to set the UI to black and white, or the ability to set colors by reading a configuration file at runtime. All features have been described in the manual of portconfig(1) since version 0.6.2. Currently an effort for a new Accessibility Handbook is in progress. Its purpose is to describe the current assistive technologies available in the operating system, a possible index is below. The Part 2 is related to the vision assistive technologies. Tips and new ideas are welcome. Abstract Preface Intended Audience Overview Part I. General Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1. Accessibility 1.2. Assistive Technologies 1.3. Miscellaneous Chapter 2. Help 2.1. Mailing Lists 2.2. Chat Part II. Vision Chapter 3. Virtual Terminal 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Colors 3.3. Resolution 3.4. Font 3.5. Bell Chapter 4. Colors 4.1. Color temperature 4.2. Contrast 4.3. Ports Collection Chapter 5. Low Vision 5.1. Magnify 5.2. Font 5.3. Screen Resolution Chapter 6. Blindness 6.1. Screen Reader 6.2. Speech Synthesizer 6.3. Speech Dispatcher 6.4. Ports Collection 6.5. Ed Editor 6.6. Edbrowse 6.7. Liblouise Chapter 7. Desktop Environments 7.1. Gnome 7.2. KDE 7.3. XFCE 7.4. Wayland Chapter 8. Development 8.1. Guidelines 8.2. Checkers 8.3. Libraries Best regards, Alfonso