Re: tasksel-data: Add an "Accessibility" task
Sébastien Hinderer, le Tue 25 Mar 2008 13:07:11 +0100, a écrit :
> > That task could be automatically selected when installation detects a
> > braille device for instance,
>
> How can the installation system be aware of the presence of a braille
> display, concretely ?
A script gets called either by udev or by the presence of "brltty" on
the kernel command line.
> > The question is then: what should be put in such a task? Brltty &
> > Gnome-orca of course comes to mind, what else should be installed?
> > Speech synthesis, dasher, gok, ...?
>
> Would it be possible to have a configuration dialog box bound to this
> task with checkboxes letting users choose the method they want to use for
> accessibility, e.g. braile, speech, magnification.
> Then the precise list of packages to install may depend on the
> selections done in this dialog box, i.e. accessibility through speech
> could for instance install emaspeak and cicero, whoc wouldn't be
> installed if only ccessibility through braille has been selected.
I don't know if tasksel permits such kind of sub-menu.
Samuel
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