Re: Gnopernicus on a Live CD?



Hi Luke,

I played a bit with your Live CD.  Very cool!

A few quick comments:

 1. The default volume level for my laptop was too low; consider setting
    it higher
 2. The default Festival speech speech is kinda slow; consider setting it
    higher (something like rate=188 or some such).
 3. gnome-mag isn't present.  It would be nice to be able to do magnification
    as well as speech.
 4. I didn't find brltty on the system.  Is it there?  That is an important
    addition (even though it boots directly to GNOME, enough people will
    want console access; also acces to the larger number of Braille devices
    that BrlTTY provides via BrlAPI).
 5. More on Braille - can you make /dev/ttyS0-S4 writable by world?  That
    will make using non-BrlTTY Braille devices a bit easier...
 6. I didn't see any of the usual Preferences panels.  It would be nice
    to control StickyKeys (among other things) directly from the menu.
 7. It would be nice if at-poke were included.
 8. Consider using the Sun Mozilla-1.7 branch instead of (or in addition to)
    Firefox.  Firefox doesn't have all of the accessibility bug fixes that
    are in the Sun Mozilla-1.7 branch ((I think only about half have made it
    back to Mozilla head thus far, with more trickling in regularly...):
  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/sun-mozilla-1.7/
 9. The first couple of times I ran Gnopernicus,  it wasn't speaking very
    much.  I got character echo, window switch events, and group membership
    when tabbing (e.g. in the gnome-at-preferences dialog, tabbing through it
    I'd get "Support"and "Applications" spoken, but not 'checkbox Enable
    assistive technologies' or the buttons or anything.  It felt like an
    older Festival bug that I thought was fixed by now, having to do with
    speech callbacks and the like.  Running Gnopernicus a third time, I
    didn't experience these problems.  Wierd...

Of course, to echo Bill Haneman, including accessible OpenOffice (somehow) would be a key addition.

Again, very cool!


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:43:20PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:

Ok. You can get the Live CD as a bit orrent:

http://www.themuso.com/ubuntu/accessibility

The md5sum file, as well as the GPG signature are there. Grab the torrent file and start downloading. :) Please let me know if you have any problems.


If you aren't up with bittorrent, and you really do want to get it, you can go to ftp://themuso.homelinux.org/ubuntu/accessibility and download it there. However I would strongly encourage the use of BitTorrent so my connection doesn't get as flooded, and it shares the load.

And when you have finished downloading, please leave your BitTorrent client open for at least a little while to help others.

Luke
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