Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

[KatolaZ]

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Dear linux-speakup community,

just to let you know that Devuan, a fork of Debian commited to provide
alternatives to systemd, has released a new Stable version, codenamed
ASCII:

  https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii-stable-announce-060818
  https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/

I thought the news might be relevant to this list in particular
because one of the standard flavours offered by Devuan (the so-called
minimal-live) aims to provide an accessible (and easily installable)
console-based live system for blind and visually-impaired users.

Devuan is committed to improving the support for accessibility, and we
are grateful to the several members of this list who have given
excellent feedback during the development of Devuan minimal-live.

Thanks and sorry again if the message could have been seen as an
intrusion by any regular reader.

Regards

KatolaZ

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Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

[Rob]

KatolaZ <katolaz@freaknet.org> wrote:
> just to let you know that Devuan, a fork of Debian commited to provide
> alternatives to systemd, has released a new Stable version, codenamed
> ASCII:
> I thought the news might be relevant to this list in particular
> because one of the standard flavours offered by Devuan (the so-called
> minimal-live) aims to provide an accessible (and easily installable)
> console-based live system for blind and visually-impaired users.

How does one invoke services such as BRLTTY or speakup on the install images? Is it done the same was the standard Debian images? That is, USB displays are detected automatically and you press the letter S to get speech at the boot menu?

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

[KatolaZ]

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On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 08:52:30AM -0500, Rob wrote:
> KatolaZ <katolaz@freaknet.org> wrote:
> > just to let you know that Devuan, a fork of Debian commited to provide
> > alternatives to systemd, has released a new Stable version, codenamed
> > ASCII:
> > I thought the news might be relevant to this list in particular
> > because one of the standard flavours offered by Devuan (the so-called
> > minimal-live) aims to provide an accessible (and easily installable)
> > console-based live system for blind and visually-impaired users.
> 
> How does one invoke services such as BRLTTY or speakup on the install images? Is it done the same was the standard Debian images? That is, USB displays are detected automatically and you press the letter S to get speech at the boot menu?

Hi Rob,

Devuan is pretty much a Debian without systemd, so the install images
work mostly the same.

The minimal-live image has brltty enabled at boot, includes an
"accessible" boot options which autologins on all the shells, and
includes espeak, espeakup, yasr, and more.

HTH

KatolaZ

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Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable available

[Gregory Nowak]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 08:52:30AM -0500, Rob wrote:
> How does one invoke services such as BRLTTY or speakup on the install images? Is it done the same was the standard Debian images? That is, USB displays are detected automatically and you press the letter S to get speech at the boot menu?

Yes. Pressing s and enter will bring up software speech with the first
message asking the user to select a language for the installation,
just like in debian. I don't have a usb braille display, but since I
believe brltty is setup to autodetect those by default, it should come
up as well as far as I know.

Greg


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