Re: [orca-list] Fwd: Debian Live Accessibility, was Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Everett!

What you have done here is a very good community thing.  It is also 
representative of what community members can be expected to do: 
proactively own a problem and choose to track down the right folks to 
get the problem resolved.  Way to go!

Will

E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Please see the forwarded conversation below regarding the accessibility 
> of the Debian Live CD.  It looks like gnome-accessibility may be 
> included in one of the soon to be released images, possibly even with 
> the live installer, which I imagine will be in need of bug reporting.
>
> Thanks,
> Everett
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > *Resent-From: *debian-live lists debian org 
> > <mailto:debian-live lists debian org>
> > *From: *"E.J. Zufelt" <everett zufelt ca <mailto:everett zufelt ca>>
> > *Date: *February 10, 2009 8:18:19 AM AST
> > *To: *Debian Live <debian-live lists debian org 
> > <mailto:debian-live lists debian org>>
> > *Subject: **Re: Lenny RC1, size issues, and the Lenny release*
> >
> > Good morning,
> >
> > This would be excellent, it might also be nice to see if it can go 
> > onto the DVD with the live installer (assuming this is a GUI 
> > application) so that accessibility bugs can be filed against the 
> > installer application.  This would go a long way to making Debian a 
> > more likely choice for blind users.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Everett
> >
> >
> > On 10-Feb-09, at 7:56 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> >
> > > E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> > > > Would it be possible to include gnome-accessibility on the DVD, as size
> > > > will likely not be a restraint?
> > >
> > > first i *personally* think it's nice to have the exact same cd images
> > > combined on a dvd (that's just me, though), so that one can take either
> > > the cds or the dvd, and it's the excately same content. that would speak
> > > against including gnome-accessibility. any *ration* reason of course
> > > speaks for including it.
> > >
> > > second, assuming that building the same dvd but with recommends enabled
> > > and/or with tasksel instead of aptitude would blow the image beyond the
> > > ~4.3GB, i would produce two dvd images, a 'small' one (dvd5) that
> > > contains only the contents of the cds, and a 'big' one (dvd9) that
> > > contains the images with recommends on and/or tasksel instead of 
> > > aptitude.
> > >
> > > however, i'll test this and depending on the outcome, i'll either
> > > produce one and include it, or produce two images and only include it on
> > > the bigger i think.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Address:        Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
> > > Email:          daniel baumann panthera-systems net 
> > > <mailto:daniel baumann panthera-systems net>
> > > Internet:       http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/
> > >
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