On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 06:53:50AM EST, Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:32 +0000, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just tested the latest daily Live CD yesterday and found that it now > > has the new 'F4' option for accessibility features. Yay! I still can't > > get over how cool that is :) What other distro (or OS) has that level of > > support built in from start? OK, so it doesn't actually do anything just > > yet :/ > > > > Well, yesterday I was told by a former SuSe SysAdmin that SuSe had > included braille autodetection at booting time when you want to install > it :( > > He said "if you have some special hardware attached to your computer the > installation would autodetect it" > > Anyways, I am very glad Ubuntu is also considering this as one of the > key features.
As far as I am aware, SuSE actually use a different Braille package to
what Debian/Ubuntu has. The most common Braille package, which is what
works with gnopernicus etc is called BrlTTY, and yes you do need special
hardware, known as a refreshable Braille display connected to use it.
Regarding implementation, we need to get BrlTTy booting as early as
possible whenever the Braille option is selected. We also need to
configure Gnopernicus to use BrlTTY, but this shouldn't be too
difficult.
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