From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 31301 invoked from network); 27 Nov 1996 20:15:08 -0000 Received: from ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk (cusexim@131.111.8.6) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 1996 20:15:07 -0000 Received: from nn201 by ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.58 #2) id 0vSqNt-0007cY-00; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:15:05 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:10:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Nikhil Nair X-Sender: nn201@amasis.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: Nikhil Nair To: blinux-list@redhat.com, linux-access@ssv1.union.utah.edu Subject: Debian installation - interested? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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