#2654: Accessibility for blind users --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: BOOK | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Keywords: --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- On the livecd list, a user said that accessibility is important for him: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd/2008-November/005290.html
On the LiveCD, accessibility is provided by the following packages: brltty (reflects the Linux console on Braille devices, testable with a fake Braille device in QEMU), speakup (kernel patch that reads the console), speechd-up (feeds text from speakup to speech-dispatcher), speech- dispatcher (accepts speech requests and converts them to a form understandable by different synthesizers), and espeak (the lightweight multilingval software speech synthesizer). However, none of these packages are currently in BLFS, and it became a policy for the new LiveCD to reject packages beyond BLFS. So, in order to have accessibility on the LiveCD, it first has to be added to BLFS. And by "added", I mean that at least one other editor receives the knowledge sufficient to maintain this stuff, and that someone indeed wants to maintain it. -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2654> BLFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs> Beyond Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
