Fwd: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Which talk engine etc?

[Phill Whiteside]

hiyas,

JM is a guy who does not pull punches, please do not take his using one word
where people would use paragraphs to avoid hurting people's sensibilities
wrongly. The lubuntu dev team IS really small. If accessibility would rather
wait for 12.04 when you will all have things a little more settled, then
that is fine by us. We can build in the accessibility hooks during the alpha
stages right up to feature freeze for 12.04. The feature freeze is imminent
for 11.10. Getting exceptions for such a major alteration may not be too
good a thing to push for 11.10 in lubuntu. 11.10 is our 1st 'official'
release and just the slight variances in iso building are taking time up.
Please do not see any of this as lubuntu stepping back from our commitment
to give, at least basic, accessibility whilst keeping in the extremely tight
rules of RAM / CPU etc.

Regards,

Phill.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Which talk engine etc?
To: lubuntu-desktop at lists.launchpad.net


On 05/25/2011 05:32 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:

> your thoughts on espeak for lubuntu?

Given lack of spec for what we want to do, if someone is working on
speech output for Lubuntu, using espeak at least as a quick fix seems
reasonable.

BUT this question in itself is "cart before the horse" symdrome!

First, get a spec for what "accessibility" we want to see (and have
resources to implement) in Lubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.  *Then* discussion on
what software to use, what integration work needs doing, etc. can start.

If the Ubuntu Accessibility team doesn't have a basic prioritized list
of "things to implement so your OS is considered accessible", then, IMO,
we should shelve accessibility features in Lubuntu for this cycle, and
start up a blueprint for accessibility in Lubuntu Prolific Panda (or
whatever it will be named!).

It's not as though we have a surplus of devs standing idle with no work
for them to do in Oneiric :)

Jonathan

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