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William Hubbs wrote: |
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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 |
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> for 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 |
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> app-accessibility/speakup |
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> [alsa support] |
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> This is needed so that a blind person can independently install gentoo |
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> linux using either hardware or software speech. |
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> Agaffney is stating that he doesn't want to add this support to the |
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> minimal cd because it will increase the size of the cd and it is not |
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> required to do an install. He is willing to put it on the live cd. I |
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> think it should go there as well as go on the minimal. I'm not |
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> comfortable, however, with it just going on the live cd since the live |
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> cds are not built near as often as the minimal cds. |
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> I understand his point about keeping the minimal cd small, but I |
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> disagree about the software not being required to do an install. If a |
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> blind person wants to install gentoo from a minimal cd, the software is |
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> a requirement, 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 |
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> being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? |
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> Thanks, |
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Could you/someone provide numbers on how much of an increase in size we |
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are talking about? |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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