Fwd: Re: [Cooker] Accessibility of the distribution

[Pierre Jarillon <jarillon AT abul.org>]

J'ai fait suivre sur la liste cooker.
Voici les premières réactions.

-- 
Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/
Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/

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• From: Michael Scherer <misc AT mandriva.org>
• To: cooker AT mandrivalinux.org
• Subject: Re: [Cooker] Accessibility of the distribution
• Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:11:25 +0100
• List-id: <cooker.mandrivalinux.org>

Le jeudi 11 mars 2010 à 13:52 +0100, Stéphane Téletchéa a écrit :
> ----- "Donald Stewart" <watersnowrock AT gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> | Donald Stewart
> |
> |
> |
> | On 11 March 2010 11:49, Michael Scherer <misc AT mandriva.org> wrote:
> | > Le jeudi 11 mars 2010 à 12:31 +0100, Pierre Jarillon a écrit :
> | >> Blind people want also to use and to install the distro from a
> | DVD.
> | >> They need a text installer and switch on text mode if a braille
> | device is
> | >> detected.
> | >>
> | >> Please, read this document from Samuel Thibault
> | >> http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/moin.cgi/Installer
> | >
> | > And after reading ? Magically, everything is solved ?
> | >
> | > By the way, if you speak of "accessibility", that's not limited to
> | > blindness or low vision. For example, a accessible installer would
> | also
> | > take in account color blind people, motor disability, but the
> | document
> | > do not give any recommendation about those.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Michael Scherer
> | >
> | >
> |
> | Its a start though, I work with people with a large range of learning
> | disabilities and having something like this would be a huge help if
> | they ever needed to install the system. What would also be good would
> | be a text to speech system, as a large number of people can see but
> | can't read.
>
> Well, we have in the distribution, at least i'm having some discussions
> with a blind person (i've never met) and he told me orca was fullfilling
> its needs.
>
> More organisation on this could help, but we are not starting from scratch,
> most of the tools are there, up and running.

And we also have support of brltty in drakx. But the code was not
touched since 2003, so either everything is fine, or no one tested.


--
Michael Scherer



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