From: Nikhil Nair <nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com, linux-access@ssv1.union.utah.edu
Subject: Debian installation - interested?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:10:34 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961127192354.5187A-100000@amasis.trin.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
Hi all,
I was talking with Bruce Perens (Debian Project Leader) a while back - he
had bought himself a DecTalk, and was toying with the idea of
speech-friendly installation. As a blind Debian developer myself, I'm
interested in accessibility issues, and would like to see Debian become
the first distribution to provide installation disks with accessibility
add-ons, as opposed to these being provided by third-parties.
Having said all that, I'm a soft Braille user, and don't have a DecTalk,
so have no feel for the usefulness of Bruce's idea. I'm a bit cautious,
because if the installation disk wrote directly to the DecTalk, that would
presumably interfere with any screen-reader (if there was one ...).
So what I'd like to know from you all is: what do you think would be most
useful? Presumably many people don't have DecTalks, but do many have
second machines to use as serial terminals? If having a serial terminal
installation procedure would be useful, should there be a choice of which
com port to use? How should this be selected - would separate rootdisks
be needed, or would a simple choice on the main keyboard (say pressing 1
or 2) be OK?
Cheers,
Nikhil.
--
Nikhil Nair
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tel.: +44 1223 368353
Email: nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk
nnair@debian.org
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