d-i accessibility for Edgy (was, Re: [Bug 13457] Re: Keyboard rate is not long enough for users withdisabilities)

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi Henrik and all,

I think the key to accessibility as regards any platform, including d-i is 
the ability to offer options.  What will work well for one user may not work 
at all for the next.  The encouraging thing though when it comes to d-i is 
that a lot of options are already almost available:

1.  An unattended install process that almost works with no intervention.  I 
can almost get the kickstart process to be completely unattended, except 
that it doesn't seem to want to honor partitioning settings specified in my 
ks.cfg.

2.  For those who have accessibility available on a second machine, it would 
make sense to have a relatively easy way to start d-i with a boot parameter, 
which would enable a terminal via ssh.  From what I understand, there is a 
udeb out there that should make this possible; However, it isn't included in 
the installer by default.

3.  Brltty is already working  quite nicely with d-i.  Brltty functionality 
was just recently added to d-i in Debian unstable, so, what are the chances 
of  getting that functionality picked up by edgy?

--Al




--Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <henrik at ubuntu.com>
To: <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:43 PM
Subject: [Bug 13457] Re: Keyboard rate is not long enough for users 
withdisabilities



OK, Improving the accessibility of the d-i version is a good aim in itself. 
We should look at that more generally for Edgy. We might be able to use the 
Speakup kernel module for example.

My point was just that the reason this issue was a major accessibility
problem has largely gone away. When the install CD was the only way for
someone to install to the HD then this was a  complete show-stopper for
some user groups. Now there is an alternative path so I think the
problem has been removed from the user's POV. Of course there may be
some corner cases where the Live CD is not suitable.

Anyway, I like this wind of accessibility awarenes blowing through
ubuntu ATM :)

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