Hello, I am far from a sysadmin, or server administrator. However I would really love to have a live or extremely simple way to run speakup, like I use grml currently. I think that by making it simple more of the less adventurous blind community may venture into the Linux land. I am really happy to se a version that has speaking version of gknome running on a live cd. Scott -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:05 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Feisty SpeakUp 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.16/504 - Release Date: 10/27/2006
