Yes, brltty is supported and present in the iso image that I have on my bootable USB stick. So, it seems you could start brltty as readily as I start Speakup when booting grml. http://grml.org Janina Anders Holmberg writes: > Hi! > I don't know really. > But you're right. > But does grml comes with braille? > I guess you can install braille but i don't want to mess things up. > And i would like to use braille rather than speech. > /A > 27 dec 2013 kl. 08:17 skrev Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > So, the goal is to check the integrity of a hard drive? If so, there are > > far better ways, imo, to go about this task. My approach would be to > > first boot grml then use standard Linux tools, e.g. e2fsck and the > > smartmontools like smartctl. > > > > This approach is fully accessible. > > > > So, what does spinWrite give you that you can't do per the above? > > > > Janina > > > > Tim Chase writes: > >> On December 26, 2013, Anders Holmberg wrote: > >>> Has anyone on the list tried spinrite for linux? > >>> There seems to be a version but i am not sure if its console or gui > >>> based. It might or might not work with screenreaders or brltty. > >> > >> Based on what I've picked up on Steve Gibson's "Security Now" > >> podcast, I believe that Spinrite has its own boot loader, possibly > >> FreeDOS, so you boot it on its own. I also understand that it's > >> OS-agnostic regarding the content of the drive, so you can check any > >> type of OS/drive regardless of how it's formatted or partitioned. > >> > >> It might be possible to use a screen-reader with it if you had the > >> following scenario: > >> > >> 1) boot an accessible OS that doesn't touch the drive you want to > >> test (perhaps from a CD or flash drive) > >> > >> 2) bring up an accessible virtualization program (I'm ignorant in > >> this department, but others might chime in). This is the key > >> element, so you'd have to test this first. Perhaps boot a FreeDOS > >> boot-disk in a virtual machine and play around to make sure it does > >> what you want. > >> > >> 3) mount the actual drive that you want to check as a virtual drive > >> in the virtual machine > >> > >> 4) mount the SpinRite boot disk in the virtual machine > >> > >> 5) boot the VM off the SpinRite drive > >> > >> Theoretically, it should start up, see the virtual drive and operate > >> on it as if you had it in a real machine, but being made accessible > >> via the virtualization program. Steve mentioned folks doing > >> something like this successfully, but you might want to ring their > >> tech-support to verify that. > >> > >> -tim > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Blinux-list mailing list > >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list