Bo MorganOct 28

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

Show threadpatricusOct 28
@neptune22222 @bce well, accessible and opensource don't mix well except NVDA so, but I wish you good luck.
Show threadBrain Computer EnterprisesOct 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!

Show threadpatricusOct 29
@bce @neptune22222 orca isn't a capable screenreader in any shape or form, it's just microsoft narrator for linux & opensource.
Show threadBrain Computer EnterprisesOct 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.

Show threadpatricusOct 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.
Show threadBrain Computer EnterprisesOct 29

@patricus @neptune22222

Although our focus is primarily FOSH and secondarily FOSS that enables it, we do plan to develop / use FOSS OCR for our hardware tools, so this may have some overlap with orca's software in the future.

Thanks for the feedback!

Show threadpatricusOct 29
@bce @neptune22222 FOSH, the mobile shell? oh god, no? no, no.
*dies*
that doesn't work with orca even 1% because touchscreen vs orca, orca dies.
Show threadBo Morgan

@patricus @bce

FOSS = Free Open Source Software
FOSH = Free Open Source Hardware

Oct 29 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadpatricusOct 29
@neptune22222 @bce ah, ok. I didn't saw even one piece of opensource hardware, my pc is a custom build and not a framework.