Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny
Mario Lang, le Sat 17 Feb 2007 15:21:50 +0100, a écrit :
> OTOH, the way serial IO is currently done in speakup
> is on the one hand very ugly and hackish, OTOH does it
> also provide a "feature". If the kernel crashes but
> speakup somehow can still run, the user can review the screen
> and read the error message.
This "feature" shouldn't be implemented in speakup but mainstream:
serial consoles would benefit from it too. And the kernel actually
_already_ has support for something similar, it's called "early serial
support" (for supporting it before IRQs are set up), and could be reused
for this.
> >> Back when I was still maintaining a speakup enabled kernel
> >> in Debian, I bought a hardware speech synthesizer especially
> >> for testing speakup support for it.
> >
> > Mmm, I'd say the best way would rather to write a "fake" speakup driver,
> > that outputs plain text on the serial port. That would let _everybody_
> > test speakup (including all kernel hackers), not only people that have
> > the hardware.
>
> I am not sure this is going to be helpful. If you want
> to test a talking application, you'll have to have it talk,
> otherwise you can't test it really.
What is the difference between having a hardware synthesizer talking
and outputing plain text on the serial device? (from the point of view
of a kernel hacker that wants to quickly check that speakup still works
I mean, not from the point of view of someone actually working on
accessibility).
> BTW, for those that dont have a hardware speech synthesizer, they can
> still use the speech-dispatcher adaptor provided by speakup.
That doesn't permit do work on the serial support, which is one of the
key points of integrating speakup upstream.
Samuel
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