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

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, I like that idea a lot.  One thing that should be looked into the 
live-builder program is when accessibility such as speech and braille 
are added to the main live discs they are also added to the main 
templates for users who wish to build their own custom live discs so 
accessibility would be in all live discs that were built.  This is one 
of the reasons I was wanting to make a live disc is for accessibility 
related rescue purposes and if I wish to do this and add custom packages 
to my live disc like clonezilla I should be able to do this unless it is 
in the live disc already that has just a console.  Having both speech 
and braille is very important for totally blind people like myself as if 
speech for some reason is not working but braille is I at least have 
access and the same is said for no braille at least I would have speech. 
Having speech and braille start up as early as possible would be nice so 
the blind user knows that something is going on.  Nick Gawronski


On 5/4/2017 7:01 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Nick Gawronski, on lun. 01 mai 2017 14:35:39 -0500, wrote:
> > Hi, Why not have the shortcuts be the same for both console and graphical
> > discs to make things easier for the end user?
> I was thinking that the user still needs to somehow decide between
> console and graphical, but he can just press ctrl-alt-f[1-7] for that.
> So it rather becomes a question of enabling speech, only.
>
> I just realized: to be coherent with the standard installation CD,
> shouldn't the "Install" entry just enter the exact install menu as found
> on the standard installation CD?  That way, the main menu can contain
> the live boot options with shortcuts, and typing 'i' enter leads to the
> install boot menu, with the usual boot options with shortcuts.  For
> sighted people, that only means pressing enter one more time, and for
> non-sighted people, that means only having to type 'i' enter before
> having the usual installation shortcuts, and thus having all shortcuts
> but 'i' available in the live menu.
>
> Just in case that was not clear: I mean having this menu at live boot
> (shortcuts marked with ^):
>
> ^Live
> Live (^failsafe)
> ^Install
> ^Advanced options
> Live with ^speech synthesis
>
> and the Install submenu would just be the standard install menu:
> ^Back
> ^Graphical install
> ^Install
> ^Advanced options
> ^Help
> Install with ^speech synthesis
>
> debian-live people, what do you think of that compromise?
>
> Samuel