Re: [orca-list] Do we need "accessible" linux distributions anymore? was Re: Go to upper left and lower right corner in orca.

[Bill Dengler <billkd314159 gmail com>]

What about non LTS releases?

Bill
On 01/28/2013 05:03 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I think both can happen in parallel. I haven't pushed anything up stream
> myself, but I would assume having something working in a custom distro
> would make it easier to get it upstream.
>
> Vinux 3.1 was based on Ubuntu 10.10 and Vinux 3.2 was based on Ubuntu
> 11.04. Vinux 4.0, which hasn't been released yet, is based on Ubuntu
> 12.04. Ubuntu 10.04 is still supported, so there's nothing wrong with
> having a live CD based on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> On 28/01/13 15:27, Jason Custer wrote:
> > It seems to me that the energy being put into creating a lot of CDs that are accessible could better be spent 
> > in making mainstream life CDs more accessible. One problem That plagues the so-called accessible CDs is that 
> > they fall far behind the live CDs that they were originally made for for example, vinux Was an outstanding 
> > distro based on Ubuntu, but now it is far out of date, having been based on version 10.04. This is one reason 
> > why I appreciate all the hard work that is been done to make gnome commonly accessible. Anyone can open orca 
> > from gnome and use it completely ice free. Start orca and carry on from there.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Jude DaShiell<jdashiel shellworld net>  wrote:
> >
> > > No, debian rescue won't work with speech and here's why.  The s parameter
> > > you use to start a debian installation disk speaking is mutually exclusive
> > > to rescue as a parameter.  That means you can enter one or the other but
> > > not both and have both work.  S and expert are also mutually exclusive.
> > > It might be possible to start speech once the system had come up in rescue
> > > mode if you had an audible indication when the system was ready for input
> > > by perhaps opening up another terminal then starting speakup up as
> > > soft_synth in that terminal though.On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > grml is a bit different.
> > > > > Hardware or software speech can be used to install and run afterwards and
> > > > > the last time I checked that out you needed the grmlmonster.iso to do it
> > > > > which fits on a dvd only.  You're left in a console environment after
> > > > > installation in grml too.
> > > > Apparently speech support has been removed from GRML as of version 2011.12 as
> > > > no-one was willing to maintain it.  I only discovered this the other day when
> > > > I wanted to use it to look at a system.  Braille support remains, or rather
> > > > was re-added in 2012.5.
> > > >
> > > > This concerns me a lot as GRML is very useful for system rescue etc.  I don't
> > > > know if the rescue mode of the Debian Wheezy CD would be a sufficient
> > > > substitude, but as has been said in this thread already, choice is good.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure that if anyone is willing to help out with this, the GRML maintainers
> > > > would be more than happy to hear from you.
> > > >
> > > > Geoff.
> > > >
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