Installing ubuntu 9.04 with braille support

[Mgr. Janusz Chmiel]

Dear syr,

    It is possible to install latest official release of Ubuntu Jaunty by using braille device. The condition is, that Your model of braille display is supported by The Brltty application. The braille devices connected throught The serial port will require special command line parameters. For important information about those situations, study The Brltty home page and The brltty documentation.

http://mielke.cc/brltty

Brltty will be able to automatically display correctly characters on Your braille display according to The installed language. But may be, that You will have to install special language updates. I experienced crashes of Ubuntu, white screen displaied after performing those language updates. So i had to do it for more than six times to have success. 

For visually impaired, it will be necessary to perform some administrative tasks outside running Gnome, on A console, i will try to find safe way for terminating Gnome environment and to work with a console. Console screen reader, Yasr and Brltty is awaylable for those situations.


And now The procedure.

I did not tested alternate installation Cd, but i tested this procedure with official release of Ubuntu Jaunty, not with latest daily live build.

So follow my instructions.

Insert Your burned CD with Ubuntu Jaunty official release.

Boot this CD, when Cd will stop working, press Enter key.

Then press F5 function key
Then press number 3, not on Your numeric keypad.

Press Enter key.
Press down arrow key for once.
Press enter again and patiently wait, until You will hear install frame message, not press keys when welcome to Orca message will be speaked to You.

Then press
CTRL+ALT+F2
Type
sudo su
Press Enter

brltty
Press enter

Or brltty with command line options, which are specific for Your model of braille display. And press Enter again.
If Your braille device is USB compatible, Brltty should recognize it automatically. When you will be able to read characters on Your braille device, press CTRL+ALT+F7

You will be back in to installation program for Ubuntu Jaunty.

Press insert+space
For recalling orca preferences dialog box.

Navigate to The OK button. Orca should after several seconds start to communicate with YOur braille device. If You will not want to have speech support, simply disable it by pressing INsert+S.

This procedure is i think very safe and would not cause any crashes during installation process.

Please let me know, if this procedure will be usable for YOu.

The kindness regards.

Janusz Chmiel
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