Accessible Live CD update (gfxboot)

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:15:10PM EST, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:43:00PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:31:14PM EST, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > So how do totally blind people navigate this? Speech is impossible
> > at this time I am sure.
> 
> Speech is technically possible actually (gfxboot can play sound files),
> but I'd rather not if I can avoid it since that brings up
> internationalisation issues too. Henrik's suggestion was just to ship a
> bit of Braille with the CD that says "if you're blind, press F4 then 3
> then Enter" (or whatever).

Yeah that makes sense, and a good idea re the Braille.

> > Have you looked at language/keyboard selection to be spoken? Is d-i 
> > still doing this, or is this done with gfxboot/UbuntuExpress?
> 
> gfxboot handles language and keymap selection. I'm planning to add some
> kind of hotkey support there to make it easier for visually-impaired
> users to navigate that.

Ok sounds good. Feel free to email/query me/the team on IRC if you 
require any assistance.
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