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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:45:14
Message-Id: 20090522204510.GA28986@linux1
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4 All,
5
6 I need some opinions about accessibility on our release media.
7
8 I am requesting that we add the following to all of our release media
9 for amd64 and x86:
10
11 app-accessibility/espeak (with portaudio in use so it supports alsa)
12 app-accessibility/espeakup
13 app-accessibility/speakup
14 [alsa support]
15
16 This is needed so that a blind person can independently install gentoo
17 linux using either hardware or software speech.
18
19 Agaffney is stating that he doesn't want to add this support to the
20 minimal cd because it will increase the size of the cd and it is not
21 required to do an install. He is willing to put it on the live cd. I
22 think it should go there as well as go on the minimal. I'm not
23 comfortable, however, with it just going on the live cd since the live
24 cds are not built near as often as the minimal cds.
25
26 I understand his point about keeping the minimal cd small, but I
27 disagree about the software not being required to do an install. If a
28 blind person wants to install gentoo from a minimal cd, the software is
29 a requirement, not an extra feature that would be nice to have.
30
31 My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software
32 being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd?
33
34 Thanks,
35
36 - --
37 William Hubbs
38 gentoo accessibility team lead
39 williamh@g.o
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