special needs

[Chuck Short]

Hi,

The kernel for breezy should have the speakup patches available. Dont
worry they are on the todo list.

Regards
chuck

On 5/9/05, Scott Berry <scott at citlink.net> wrote:
> Hello there list,
> 
> My name is Scott and I found out about this distribution of Linux
> yesterday while reading a newsgroup.  I have a couple of questions
> however, first of all I am totally blind and need access to the
> screen.  Have you looked at implementing Speakup a screen reading
> program which can be found at http://www.linux-speakup.org.  To get
> the tar ball you may go to ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca and find it
> there.  Secondly, would you be able to include Brltty for those of us
> who do not have a serial port because once we install Brltty we could
> then begin to use Brltty right away.  You may find Brltty at
> http://dave.mielke.cc.  I really think this would be
> great.  Secondly, could there be a question in your installation
> which says something like:  Do you need to use Braille and speech
> devices? (Please remember that speech and braille devices installed
> only work under the text console, however, you may find Gnopernicus
> once you have installed the system.)  I think this would make things
> much better as for disabilities.
> 
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