From: "Scott Ford" <w8sef@sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: Feisty SpeakUp
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:48:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c6f9f0$0d563aa0$7301a8c0@A55> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4542121A.4040006@ubuntu.com>
Hello,
I am far from a sysadmin, or server administrator. However I would
really love to have a live or extremely simple way to run speakup, like I
use grml currently. I think that by making it simple more of the less
adventurous blind community may venture into the Linux land. I am really
happy to se a version that has speaking version of gknome running on a live
cd.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:05 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Feisty SpeakUp
Hello,
I'd like to ask for some input on a spec I'm doing for the next version
of Ubuntu. We currently have speakup in the kernel but it's very far
from Just Works. See:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/FeistySpeakup
I guess I first have to ask what the common use cases are. Is speakup
largely used by system admins and developers working from the CLI? Is it
valuable to have a Live CD that boots to the CLI with speakup? We
currently don't have CLI Live CD AFAIK.
The possible areas I could imagine improving usability are:
* Server edition -- Currently has the speakup module, but not simple
way to install or run live
* The debian installer -- currently used on the alternate and server CDs
* spoken boot -- have all the boot messages read out as you boot
* Standard CLI, simple launch -- For those who prefer gnome it may be
difficult to recover when X fails. It should be trivial to launch
speakup in such cases: 'start-speakup'. An introduction with basic
operating instructions should be read out.
* anything else?
Another point I want to emphasise is that if we do this it would be in
the main Ubuntu distribution, not a special derivative. It is not just
intended for advanced computer users, but beginners as well. The
features should then also get picked up by Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Mephis, etc.
Henrik
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Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Willem van der Walt
` Gene Collins
` Scott Ford [this message]
` John Heim
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Marcel Oats
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