Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console

On 7/7/22 23:26, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Klaus Küchemann wrote:
>>> Am 07.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky org>:
>>> The only argument I've heard from some non-sighted friends about not using FreeBSD natively is that ooh, MacOSX is so cool. It starts speaking from the start if I press this and this key. Is anyone here working on or wanting such a feature?
>>
>> Possibly they didn’t want to  be rude and your friends didn't tell you the other argument  :-)  : according to the corresponding wiki page FreeBSD doesn't natively support any audio output at all on your friends current M1 Mac hardware.
>>   since quite nothing is currently supported you probably will first take over working on the Audio driver …..and of course USB  :-)
> 
>    I think a huge benefit that Apple would have is that they might be
> able to guarantee some sort of audio speaker, period, since they
> control the hardware that the software runs on.  That might be a big ask
> on FreeBSD, but maybe if there was some relatively ubiqitous

Hi,

Does Apple support voice-over in its bootloaders too? I think not, so at 
some point of technical breakage you will be stuck anyway - right?

--HPS