Feisty SpeakUp

[Scott Ford]

Hello,
	I am far from a sysadmin, or server administrator.  However I would
really love to have a live or extremely simple way to run speakup, like I
use grml currently.  I think that by making it simple more of the less
adventurous blind community may venture into the Linux land.  I am really
happy to se a version that has speaking version of gknome running on a live
cd.
Scott  


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:05 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Feisty SpeakUp

Hello,

I'd like to ask for some input on a spec I'm doing for the next version 
of Ubuntu. We currently have speakup in the kernel but it's very far 
from Just Works. See: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/FeistySpeakup

I guess I first have to ask what the common use cases are. Is speakup 
largely used by system admins and developers working from the CLI? Is it 
valuable to have a Live CD that boots to the CLI with speakup? We 
currently don't have CLI Live CD AFAIK.
 
The possible areas I could imagine improving usability are:

 * Server edition -- Currently has the speakup module, but not simple 
way to install or run live
 * The debian installer -- currently used on the alternate and server CDs
 * spoken boot -- have all the boot messages read out as you boot
 * Standard CLI, simple launch -- For those who prefer gnome it may be 
difficult to recover when X fails. It should be trivial to launch 
speakup in such cases: 'start-speakup'. An introduction with basic 
operating instructions should be read out.
 * anything else?


Another point I want to emphasise is that if we do this it would be in 
the main Ubuntu distribution, not a special derivative. It is not just 
intended for advanced computer users, but beginners as well. The 
features should then also get picked up by Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Mephis, etc.


Henrik

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