Bug#516723: wishlist: adding Desktop Screen Reader to the tasksel menu

[Labrador <labrad0r@edpnet.be>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:45:07PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Osvaldo La Rosa <labrad0r@edpnet.be> writes:
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> [...]
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> > This will also complete a little bit the brltty support who is already
> > present now on the D-I.
> >
> > Please do provide this entry if posible.
> 
> [...]
> 
> What packages would be required for proper support for it?

Only gnome-orca and its dependences; it seems to install itself espeak and
so the couple orca (screen reader) + espeak (multilingual speech synthesis)
will be installed.
For braille, brltty is already installed if for example you entered at the
CD boot: prompt a line like brltty=bb,dd,tt (where bb = braille display, dd
the device, tt the brailel table).

There exist a package called brltty-x11 but this isn't mandatory to be
installed for the correct working of orca+espeak. 

> Another thing, there's any specific language packages that provide
> support for other langues then English?

Well, that's the fantastic way the espeak package have been built; it
contains lots of languages, these may be changed at the 1st startup of Orca
from the Gnome environment (alt+f2 orca <enter>).

> Cheers,
Ciao.
 
Labrad0r