Integrating Speakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process

[Michael Whapples]

On 23/12/42 19:59, Gaijin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:21:27AM +0000, Jason White wrote:
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>> I've recently been experimenting with SpeakUp, motivated by the (temporary)
>> unavailability of both of my braille displays.
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>   Exactly.  As an ex-Debian fan, I can no longer recommend Debian
> for accessibility support.  It's been a constant headache from day one,
> being the last distro out there to add in accessibility support, and
> IMHO, will continue to be that way..  Personally, I'm moving on to GRML
> or Ubuntu as soon as I can manage it.  I've had enough of Debian, FWIW.
> Debian has all the accessibility tools I need in it and more (speakup, orca, brltty, emacspeak, yasr, screader, etc). I am not sure how you expect GRML to be more "accessible" than debian as GRML uses debian's repositories for quite a number of packages. The only thing GRML offers over debian (and Samuel may be changing this for debian) is that speakup is on the GRML CD (I am not sure whether it was possible to do an install of debian with speakup in the past so easily as it has been with GRML). I choose GRML for other reasons than accessibility.
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The only possible complaint I have to make about debian regarding 
accessibility is that gnome is quite out dated (not even yet fully 2.24) 
and with the pace of improvement of gnome accessibility it is quite 
important to keep up with gnome for the best experience.

This is my experience as a user, I don't know how it is for those 
creating the accessibility packages for debian.

Michael Whapples

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