#2654 closed enhancement (invalid)
Accessibility for blind users
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | x-future |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description ¶
On the livecd list, a user said that accessibility is important for him: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd/2008-November/005290.html
On the LiveCD, accessibility is provided by the following packages: brltty (reflects the Linux console on Braille devices, testable with a fake Braille device in QEMU), speakup (kernel patch that reads the console), speechd-up (feeds text from speakup to speech-dispatcher), speech-dispatcher (accepts speech requests and converts them to a form understandable by different synthesizers), and espeak (the lightweight multilingval software speech synthesizer). However, none of these packages are currently in BLFS, and it became a policy for the new LiveCD to reject packages beyond BLFS. So, in order to have accessibility on the LiveCD, it first has to be added to BLFS.
And by "added", I mean that at least one other editor receives the knowledge sufficient to maintain this stuff, and that someone indeed wants to maintain it.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Milestone: | → future |
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comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Type: | defect → enhancement |
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Changed some tickets from a defect to an enhancement
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
A suggestion: Is there a blind LFS/BLFS user that is willing and able to at least keep a wiki page up to date for these various pieces of software? It would help greatly in terms of testing and validating usefulness of any instructions associated with the packages.
As far as the LiveCD policy goes: the idea is that the CD should accurately reflect LFS and BLFS in terms of both strengths and weaknesses (the weaknesses should be apparent so that what is weak can be made stronger).