Accessible Live CD update (gfxboot)

[Colin Watson]

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).

> > One issue we encountered was that the Festival libs are rather huge, at 
> > 40MB, and so we decided to opt for Festival-light instead (at 8MB) for 
> > the live CD. After installing the system it would be possible to upgrade 
> > to Festival. We need to document this, or ideally make it very easy. 
> > Could we get Ubuntu Express to pull it down from the net for users who 
> > are using the Live CD with F-light?

(I intend to try to avoid requiring network access for live installs if
at all possible.)

> 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.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]