@aral I don't get the association between OS's, Linux and "FOSS", as Linux is a proprietary kernel that's not even an operating system either.

Yes, currently implemented free screen readers are developed by volunteers due to a lack of funding - such kind of issue is best dealt with by getting it done yourself or paying someone else to do so rather than complaining.

Yes, regulators should probably order IBM to implement a non-broken screen reader for the general purpose OS's they publish.


The Emacs OS does indeed have a screen reader emacspeak, with lots of development (27,000+ commits), too bad the Gentoo ebuild doesn't compile, as the maintainers are busy adding proprietary software instead.