Mastodawn

I've submitted my resignation letter to Apple. My last day will be this Friday, October 31st.

I'm starting a nonprofit company to create FOSH (Free Open Source Hardware) assistive consumer electronics, focused initially on assistive consumer electronics for blind people. I plan to release many small intermediate products for the maker community.

I plan to start working full time starting November 1st at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc.
@bce

#nonprofit #a11y #blind #maker #fosh #foss #bce #bcecoop #freehardware #freesoftware #apple

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patricus Oct 28

@neptune22222 @bce well, accessible and opensource don't mix well except NVDA so, but I wish you good luck.

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Brain Computer Enterprises Oct 28

@patricus @neptune22222

Hi Patricus,

It's great to know that NVDA is a good accessible open source project for accessing Microsoft Windows.

ORCA is a similar open source accessibility project that provides screen reader access to Linux-based systems.

We hope to get involved in our local and online blind communities early in our development process to make sure that the website and software and hardware tools are tested by blind people as much as possible.

Thank you for your feedback!

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patricus Oct 29

@bce @neptune22222 orca isn't a capable screenreader in any shape or form, it's just microsoft narrator for linux & opensource.

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Brain Computer Enterprises Oct 29

@patricus @neptune22222

That's good to know. On the orca mailing list it appears there are a few committed developers, and the users of open source operating systems, like GNU/Linux, seem to depend on it.

Are the capabilities that orca is missing too numerous to enumerate or are there a few that you could easily describe?

We'll try to meet blind people where they are by allowing them to use their own devices to test our webpages, software and hardware, including Microsoft Windows and NVDA.

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patricus Oct 29

@bce @neptune22222 that are few that are on top off my head.
and also, it sometimes hanging, that's probably ATSPI issue though, because it's just bad.

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patricus

@bce @neptune22222 plus, there's no way to go to any recovery that talks unlike in your hated windows that'll talk to you. windows recovery is talking, unless they break narrator but it only happened once and I can trust them more to not break it than linux's audio stack nooking itself randomly because some config got modified by an update.