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Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images




Le 30/04/2017 à 02:14, Nick Gawronski a écrit :
> Hi, I am trying to make the live debian images with the installer
> accessible so blind users can put one of the live discs into their
> drives and test out debian either console and or one of the desktop

Oh! Excellent news! Many thanks! I've waited for this for a long.


> images.  I am sending this message to both the debian-accessibilityand
> the debian-live lists so people can give their input.  Having the images
> beep at the boot prompt as the stable images do and adding a boot option
> like "s" for speech would be very helpful as when I was wanting to try
> out pure debian I had no way to do so before I installed it.  What would
> it take for you to add espeakup and or orca to the live images as some
> users don't need or want a desktop just a command line but want to be
> able to install the live disc on their system if they like what it does
> for them?  Nick Gawronski

Actuallx on Gnome DVD, Orca may be installed. It should be also on MATE,
lxde, xfce DVDs. Less useful for KDE as not accessible at all.

The thing is that the live should include brltty and, indeed, a key to
enable speakup just like the installer does.

So yes, beep and "s" is a good idea. This "s" should also enable Orca
automatically at boot of the DE.

About the install process, it means that running it from the desktop
should, if Orca is enabled, run the text one. If braille is enabled,
ncurses one should be run. Otherwise, the classical graphical one, which
is not accessible today.

Hypra tried making a kind of accessible DVD with Debian, MATE, Compiz,
Orca, and brltty. But we don't use it so much, because a lot of random
bugs at boot, language keyboard problems, sometimes the screen reader
doesn't start, etc. If it can help to 9ork:
http://hypra.fr/Developpement-72.html?lang=en

The iso is downloadable here.

Regards,

> 
> 

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