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Screen Reader User Survey #11 Resultshttps://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11/Shared sans comment.#a11y #accessibility

@funkybuddhaThank you. Speech Note was at the top of the list in Linux Mint, so I installed it for the guy and downloaded two large Vosk language models. I chose Vosk, because I had good success with it in Kdenlive auto-generating subtitles.It seemed not to hear me, so I checked the mic function in Audacity. I kept playing with it and it only produced the word 'the' repeatedly for the most part. Weird. Maybe I should have said 'no' to h/w acceleration? Thanks for your vote. I'm going to  test it here at home on my own box and not give up on it.@menelion

A very specific need, for a very specific community, made by someone who feels this need and wanted to cover it. But the narration "do it yourself if you need", can't always work for everyone, especially when concerning code learning. My talk's explanation: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/reclaiming-our-choice-why-digital-independence-demands-open-standards-and-accessibility-in-foss/ Whole DiDay program: https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/digital-independence-day-2026/ #accessibility #a11y #blind #events #foss #sfscon #sfscon26 (2/2)@sfscon @Two9A @stefano

@mro I'll check for it later. Will be out of town till Monday evening

@wearetheprojekt Yeah, I was actually thinking about this hybrid approach today. FreeBSD already uses something quite similar for graphics drivers.If BRLTTY had a BSD-like license, I would have imported it into the FreeBSD base system. The problem is that its license doesn't allow that. So anything we use from BRLTTY would have to be installed manually by the user, `pkg install brltty`.For speech synthesis, there shouldn't be any licensing issues. We already have some proof-of-concept work showing that the virtual console can communicate with a speech synthesizer, and there are several synthesizers with BSD-like licenses that we could use.So they could potentially be available starting from the OS installer.