creating a speakup cli cd

[John G. Heim]

I just tested my instructions and they worked for grml-2012-05 which I 
believe is the latest version.

The change to having to do a "modprobe speakup_soft" and then "espeakup" 
happened in just the version before last (2011-11). So I don't think it 
is going to change again any time soon. The grml developers 
understandably want to stick as much as possible with standard debian 
tools. So they include the speakup modules and a few blind friendly 
packages like espeakup and brltty. But other than that, the disk is not 
customized for blind people. In a way that's a good thing because it 
means these accomodations (such as they are) are less likely to break 
and/or get left out of a release.
On 2/5/2013 3:30 PM, Marcel Oats wrote:
> Hi John and others, I believe this could be slightly dated, do you still
> have to do a modprobe speakup_soft, followed by running espeakup to
> start software speech in the latest grml?
>
> Yes there are a few problems still.
>
> Marcel
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: John G. Heim
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:16 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd
>
> I use grml for this. See www.grml.org.  I wrote a wiki entry  on using
> the accessibility features of grml on the wiki of the International
> Association of Visually Impaired Technologists. The page is here:
> http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Accessing_grml
>
> Grml has some access issues. It's not perfect. However, if I were to
> build my own rescue disk, I'd start with grml. They encourage people to
> build their own disks and include a tool for doing that.  I think the
> tool is called grml-live or something like that. You can google that.
> But in my job as the manager of the high performance clusters at the
> University of Wisconsin Math department, I always just use generic grml.
> I have not found it necessary to modify it.
>
>
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