Hi all,
Just got back from the Distro sprint in bond, where Colin
and I had
some very productive chats about making the boot process
accessible. And
a few hours later he had the basic framework in place. ROCK!
So, basically when you boot the live CD there are some
function-key
options at the bottom of the screen:
http://www.sim
plifiedcomplexity.com/images/screenshots/dapper/flight3/gfxb
oot-theme-splash-big.png
The F4 option has now been linked to Accessibility (more
options is F5).
When pressed you get a pop-up menu with 7 options,
corresponding to the
6 categories listed here:
h
ttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuExpress/Accessibility plus
'Enable everything'
You navigate with the keyboard or press a number key (1-7)
to activate
an option, which will enable a set of pre-defined assistive
technologies. The feature should hit the testing CDs next
week,
including Flight 4.
One issue we encountered was that the Festival libs are
rather huge, at
40MB, and so we decided to opt for Festival-light instead
(at 8MB) for
the live CD. After installing the system it would be
possible to upgrade
to Festival. We need to document this, or ideally make it
very easy.
Could we get Ubuntu Express to pull it down from the net for
users who
are using the Live CD with F-light? For those who have used
Festival and
Festival-light: what are the main differences? Is it just
the quality of
the voice?
We still need to put in some work to make sure we select
sensible config
options for each of those categories and of course test the
AT tools
currently in Dapper to make sure they are well behaved.
- Henrik
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