Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] rfc: Accessibility on our release media
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:01:07
Message-Id: 20090522230105.GA29203@linux1
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-accessibility] rfc: Accessibility on our release media by James Homuth
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4 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:13:44PM -0400, James Homuth wrote:
5 > Two words. Common sense. Linux by its very nature is designed to be easily
6 > accessible, most especially in its command line interface. Since Gentoo's
7 > instalation process is most if not all command line, that alone should be
8 > the perfect reasoning for including it. Simply put, if Ubuntu can do it with
9 > Gnome, there's absolutely no reason why Gentoo can't do it with command line
10 > aside from the fact we don't want to. And that, honestly, is not good
11 > enough.
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13 The developers have asked me to sho how big the software is, and I have
14 done that. Basically, if you don't include alsa support, it is
15 somewhere around 3 mb or so. We will need alsa support as well for the
16 software speech, but I do not know how much space that will take up.
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18 My goal is to get the software on all of our media and not just the live
19 cd.
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22 William Hubbs
23 gentoo accessibility team lead
24 williamh@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-accessibility] rfc: Accessibility on our release media Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@××××××××.org>
RE: [gentoo-accessibility] rfc: Accessibility on our release media James Homuth <james@×××××××.com>