Feisty SpeakUp

[Marcel Oats]

So, is this for the 6.1 build?
All your suggestions are good ones.  I personally would like to have 
the boot menus read out, but there's no way you could do this.  You 
could have minimle hardware synth support, but the amount of code 
needed might get excessive.
At 03:05 Ay M 28/10/2006, you wrote:
>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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