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aaron<p>I’ve published Part 3 of “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.”</p><p>This one’s about the so-called universal interface: the console. The raw, non-GUI, text-mode TTY. The place where sighted Linux users fall back when the desktop breaks, and where blind users are supposed to do the same. Except — we can’t. Not reliably. Not safely. Not without building the entire stack ourselves.</p><p>This post covers Speakup, BRLTTY, Fenrir, and the audio subsystem hell that makes screen reading in the console a game of chance. It dives into why session-locked audio breaks espeakup, why BRLTTY fails silently and eats USB ports, why the console can be a full environment — and why it’s still unusable out of the box. And yes, it calls out the fact that if you’re deafblind, and BRLTTY doesn’t start, you’re just locked out of the machine entirely. No speech. No visuals. Just a dead black box.</p><p>There are workarounds. Scripts. Hacks. Weird client.conf magic that you run once as root, once as a user, and pray to PipeWire that it sticks. Some of this I learned from a reader of post 1. None of it is documented. None of it is standard. And none of it should be required.</p><p>This is a long one. Technical, and very real. Because the console should be the one place Linux accessibility never breaks. And it’s the one place that’s been left to rot.</p><p>Link to the post: <a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-3-speakup-brltty-and-the-forgotten-infrastructure-of-console-access/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w</span><span class="invisible">ant-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-3-speakup-brltty-and-the-forgotten-infrastructure-of-console-access/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/BlindTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlindTech</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/BRLTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BRLTTY</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Speakup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Speakup</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Fenrir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fenrir</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/TTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTY</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/PipeWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PipeWire</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/ScreenReader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenReader</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DisabilityTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityTech</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/ConsoleComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConsoleComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/LinuxAccessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxAccessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
aaron<p>GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People</p><p>I chose to write this.<br>Link removed<br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blind</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DisabilityTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityTech</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inclusion</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv3</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/espeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espeak</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rant</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/TechShame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechShame</span></a></p><p>**update**: If you are using this post as some kind of call-to-action to harass and attack the GOS developers, please don't.</p><p>That damages everyone. You, them, and myself. It's not helpful.</p><p>**Update two**. I have made the decision to pull this post. It is not a good starting-point for a discussion, and just encourages defensiveness on both sides – when there really aren't sides here at all.</p><p>As a FOSS contributor, I am deeply ashamed at the way I approached this out of frustration.</p>
Serge from Babka<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@railmeat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>railmeat</span></a></span> </p><p>My goodness are transparent n95 masks a thing?</p><p>I have no hearing disorder but a part of my neurological impairment is auditory processing issues. I almost always need some sort of augmentation to understand someone- high compression audio (on a PC or phone), subtitles on TV, or reading lips in person.</p><p>Masks are a serious impediment to me understanding someone, and while I wouldn't ask someone to be put at risk of illness, it can be physically painful for me to listen to someone wearing a mask!</p><p>If there was an option where I could give someone a mask an option... that would be huge.</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Neurodivergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergence</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/DisabilityTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityTech</span></a></p>
Lanie Carmelo<p>I’ve got to say, I’m really impressed with <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> so far! 🦊💻 I’ve been using it for the last few hours, and it’s been running like a dream. Right<br>now, I’ve got 7 tabs open (and at times even more), yet there’s been no slowness or performance issues whatsoever. It’s shaping up to be an excellent browsing<br>experience—smooth, fast, and reliable!</p><p><a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/WebBrowsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebBrowsers</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/BlindTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlindTech</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/DisabilityTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityTech</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/FirefoxBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirefoxBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/InclusiveTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InclusiveTech</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/DigitalAccessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalAccessibility</span></a></p>
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