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Two words. Common sense. Linux by its very nature is designed to be easily |
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accessible, most especially in its command line interface. Since Gentoo's |
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instalation process is most if not all command line, that alone should be |
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the perfect reasoning for including it. Simply put, if Ubuntu can do it with |
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Gnome, there's absolutely no reason why Gentoo can't do it with command line |
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aside from the fact we don't want to. And that, honestly, is not good |
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enough. |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: William Hubbs [mailto:williamh@g.o] |
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Sent: May 22, 2009 4:45 PM |
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To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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Cc: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] rfc: Accessibility on our release media |
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All, |
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I need some opinions about accessibility on our release media. |
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I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media for |
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amd64 and x86: |
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app-accessibility/espeak (with portaudio in use so it supports alsa) |
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app-accessibility/espeakup app-accessibility/speakup [alsa support] |
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This is needed so that a blind person can independently install gentoo linux |
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using either hardware or software speech. |
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Agaffney is stating that he doesn't want to add this support to the minimal |
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cd because it will increase the size of the cd and it is not required to do |
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an install. He is willing to put it on the live cd. I think it should go |
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there as well as go on the minimal. I'm not comfortable, however, with it |
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just going on the live cd since the live cds are not built near as often as |
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the minimal cds. |
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I understand his point about keeping the minimal cd small, but I disagree |
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about the software not being required to do an install. If a blind person |
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wants to install gentoo from a minimal cd, the software is a requirement, |
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not an extra feature that would be nice to have. |
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My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software being on |
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our minimal cd as well as our live cd? |
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Thanks, |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |
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