speech/braille live rescue?

speech/braille live rescue?

[Mike Keithley]

Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable image I can put on a USB stick?

Re: speech/braille live rescue?

[K0LNY]

It used to be that GRML did, but I haven't used it for so long, I can't say 
for sure now.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Keithley" <mlkeithley@comcast.net>
To: <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:20 PM
Subject: speech/braille live rescue?


> Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable image I 
> can put on a USB stick?
> 

Re: speech/braille live rescue?

[John G. Heim]

GRML hasn't had many releases lately. They put out a new release only 
every couple of years now a days. I am on the developers email list. I 
haven't actually done any development but I test every release for 
accessibility. So I am pretty sure the latest release has both speech 
and braille.

I am pretty sure the way you get speech is still the same. Wait for grml 
startup tones, press q to quit the menu, type "modprobe speakup_soft", 
type "espeakup".

The last couple of times i needed to boot a machine to rescue it, I used 
a Ubuntu disk because I usually have one of those around. That is 
probably the big disadvantage of GRML, you have to think to make one of 
those in advance. I like using CD-ROMs because you don't usually have to 
fiddle with the BIOS. If you have a machine where you can leave the 
drawer open a little, you can just keep the CD-ROM in there and simply 
push it closed to boot from the CD-ROM. Only problem with that, of 
course, is that you might as well go watch an episode of Discovery 
waiting for it to boot.



On 11/19/21 10:10 PM, K0LNY wrote:
> It used to be that GRML did, but I haven't used it for so long, I can't 
> say for sure now.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Keithley" <mlkeithley@comcast.net>
> To: <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:20 PM
> Subject: speech/braille live rescue?
> 
> 
>> Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable 
>> image I can put on a USB stick?
>>
> 
> 

-- 
###
John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim@math.wisc.edu

Re: speech/braille live rescue?

[K0LNY]

I'm sure you can put GRML on an USB stick with Universal USB installer.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "K0LNY" <Glenn@Ervin.eMail>; "Mike Keithley" <mlkeithley@comcast.net>; 
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2021 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: speech/braille live rescue?


> GRML hasn't had many releases lately. They put out a new release only 
> every couple of years now a days. I am on the developers email list. I 
> haven't actually done any development but I test every release for 
> accessibility. So I am pretty sure the latest release has both speech and 
> braille.
>
> I am pretty sure the way you get speech is still the same. Wait for grml 
> startup tones, press q to quit the menu, type "modprobe speakup_soft", 
> type "espeakup".
>
> The last couple of times i needed to boot a machine to rescue it, I used a 
> Ubuntu disk because I usually have one of those around. That is probably 
> the big disadvantage of GRML, you have to think to make one of those in 
> advance. I like using CD-ROMs because you don't usually have to fiddle 
> with the BIOS. If you have a machine where you can leave the drawer open a 
> little, you can just keep the CD-ROM in there and simply push it closed to 
> boot from the CD-ROM. Only problem with that, of course, is that you might 
> as well go watch an episode of Discovery waiting for it to boot.
>
>
>
> On 11/19/21 10:10 PM, K0LNY wrote:
>> It used to be that GRML did, but I haven't used it for so long, I can't 
>> say for sure now.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Keithley" 
>> <mlkeithley@comcast.net>
>> To: <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:20 PM
>> Subject: speech/braille live rescue?
>>
>>
>>> Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable image 
>>> I can put on a USB stick?
>>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> ###
> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim@math.wisc.edu 

Re: speech/braille live rescue?

[Alexander Epaneshnikov]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 07:20:04PM -0800, Mike Keithley wrote:
> Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable image I can put on a USB stick?

Arch Linux does[1].

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_options

--
Sincerely, Alexander

Re: speech/braille live rescue?

[Jason White]

On 20/11/21 11:07, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 07:20:04PM -0800, Mike Keithley wrote:
>> Which linux rescue systems have speech/braille as a live bootable image I can put on a USB stick?
> Arch Linux does[1].

I used it when it required a separate "Talking Arch" image to be 
downloaded. It worked well for installing Arch Linux (I have a braille 
display and I can use speech also).

I have also used GRML, but this was a number of years ago - at least 7, 
probably more. Again, the experience was positive.

As the Arch documentation states, braille displays should be 
automatically detected by BRLTTY if connected via USB.