Live CD with AT features: first test

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hello Henrik,

I'm attempting to troubleshoot the speech related issues you mentioned and 
thus far, I have one observation and one question.

1.  It appears that test-speech is not being installed as part of 
gnome-speech on the live cd.  I remember this issue was discussed a few 
weeks back, and I thought that it was fixed, at least in the gnome-speech 
available from the repository.
2.  For purposes of troubleshooting I'm looking at how to set up a 
persistent file system.  There is a nice wiki on doing this at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence
The procedure seems simple enough, but my question is that according to the 
wiki, to enable persistence, you need to press f6 at the boot menu, and att 
the persistent boot parameter.
If it isn't already, could that parameter be included by default when 
booting with accessibility, or would doing so break things if a persistent 
file system were actually not present?

Thanks,

--Al

  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <henrik at ubuntu.com>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
<ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:58 AM
Subject: Live CD with AT features: first test


>
> Finally the AT stuff has landed on the standard live CD! Yay!
>
> I did a quick test of the 5 different modes. The packages seem to be there 
> but some tweaking will be needed.
>
> == High contrast mode ==
>
>  * It starts up directly with HC icons
>  * However it's not using the full HC theme
>   * It should have a large font and HC widgets
>  * We should select a plain background
>  * Some icons are missing (known issue)
>
> The full HC theme is actually installed and can be activated with a few 
> clicks, so it should be a minor configuration issue.
>
> == Magnifier ==
>
>  * It is installed, but not enabled by default
>   * You have to enable it an log out+in, then it works
>  * It has 8x zoom by default; I think we agreed to go with 4x?
>  * It has the poor standard magnifier placement of 320, 0, 639, 479
>   * I think we agreed to place it at the bottom of the screen
>
> After tweaking the setup a bit, it seems to run well, following the cursor 
> and all that.
>
> == Screen reader ==
>
>  * Installed, but not activated by default (as above)
>  * More seriously, I could not get it to speak
>  * ESD is disabled as it should be
>
> == Keyboard enhancements ==
>
>  * Starts up on boot and works perfectly as expected
>  * It would be nice to also add the key modifier notification panel applet
>
> == On screen keyboard ==
>
>  * Won't start -- from the terminal it crashes with an error
>  * It runs fine on my installed dapper system though, so there is hope
>
> == Other ==
>
>  * Dasher is also installed by default
>  * Espresso seems to work well with the HC theme; I did not test it with 
> the other tools
>
>
> I'll write this up more properly later in the wiki and start filing bugs 
> and looking for solutions ...
>
>  - Henrik
>
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