From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.100]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GdT0Z-0006xd-00 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:48:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 84929 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2006 14:48:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO A55) (w8sef@sbcglobal.net@68.252.2.197 with login) by smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2006 14:48:00 -0000 From: "Scott Ford" To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" Subject: RE: Feisty SpeakUp Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:48:03 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c6f9f0$0d563aa0$7301a8c0@A55> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acb50TgFHmGnf7fcSLibFJAJ9ZXVRQAHLG0g In-Reply-To: <4542121A.4040006@ubuntu.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:48:31 -0000 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.16/504 - Release Date: 10/27/2006