[Grml] How are blind grml users handling currentweb technologies?

[Michael Whapples]

John, I would agree with the list of what would be needed (personal 
view). The only additional one I can imagine some might ask for might be 
emacspeak, however possibly should that be included on a live CD, I 
would probably go with not really as speakup can work (may be not as 
well) with emacs or vim, so its not like you are lacking access to a 
decent editor. Anyway, should emacspeak be desired then it could be 
downloaded, or may be its something for a custom GRML CD.

Also, I don't know that I could commit to testing every release (as I 
mentioned speakup in ArchLinux is not working on my computers and I 
think its a speakup issue not a issue with the packaging) but may be let 
us know here on this list as well when you want testing of accessibility 
and I will do what I can.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, John G. Heim wrote:
> From: "Christian Hofstaedtler" <ch at grml.org>
> To: <grml at ml.grml.org>
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>> Can you (or someone else interested in this) draft a list of things
>> we would need to do/ship to actually have working accesibility support
> <> (for you)?
>> This includes everything that might be there right now. I myself
>> have never seen such a setup, so please be explicit.
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> I'd better ask around before I give you a definative list. I think I 
> know what to tell you but I'll check  it out to make sure. I own a 
> hardware speech synthesizer so I think for me, just including the 
> speakup kernel modules would be enough.  And that code is now in the 
> mainstream kernel code. You don't have to do anything but check the 
> boxes for it when you're configuring a kernel.
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> On a debian system, to get software speech, you need the speakup 
> modules and you need to install two packages, espeak and espeakup. To 
> get braille, you need the brltty package.
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>> accessibility, I assume it's not really useful to actually have the 
>> software on the ISO at all; so not having QA here is not really an
>> option.
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> I will do that.  All I'll need is to be notified when I need to test.  
> I'm guessing that it wouldn't be a problem if it took me a few days to 
> get to it. I mean, sometimes I take vacation.  But most of the time, 
> if I was notified that I had to test a new version, I would get to it 
> within 24 hours. And I'll be a good tester. I can use my employers 
> resources to test so you'll never hear from me something like I 
> couldn't get to it because my network connection was down. And I have 
> a hardware speech synthesizer and a braille display. So I could test 
> the full range of accessibility features.
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>> If somebody steps up to do the work and/or the list, we might 
>> reconsider.
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> Well, you've already got somebody. I'm not the most knowledgable grml 
> user in the world. I've used only the live CD as a rescue disk. But I 
> have plenty of hardware that I can install grml on. I don't know if 
> I'll need a machine with grml installed to the disk but I can set that 
> up tonight. And I'll start asking around to make sure I know what to 
> tell you to include.
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