[gentoo-dev] how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[gentoo-dev] how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[blinux]

Hi,
	Just a question due to the fact that I'm a Debian user, and Gentoo
is deb-based;
	But does it provides a good offer of console minded applications,
and so, should it be usable by visually impaired users?

	Thanks for this info; reply please in CC since I'm not on the
mlist.

	GreetinX, Osvaldo.
	http://www.brlspeak.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[Chad M. Huneycutt]

blinux@audiobraille.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Just a question due to the fact that I'm a Debian user, and Gentoo
> is deb-based;

Gentoo is definitely *not* Debian-based.  It is ports-based and inherits 
more from BSD than any Linux distribution.

> 	But does it provides a good offer of console minded applications,
> and so, should it be usable by visually impaired users?

Well, we would certainly like to hear any suggestions that make Gentoo more 
accessible.  The install is completely at the console -- is that what you 
mean? And we would be happy to add any applications/kernel patches to the 
portage tree to make it more accessible.  If you have a list of packages 
that you think are essential, you can check them on
      http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages.html
or send them to the list, and we will do our best to add any that are missing.

Please try it out and let us know any shortcomings.  Our community is very 
open and active, so if you would like to get in touch with us, you can use 
the forums at http://forums.gentoo.org (down right now, unfortunately), the 
mailing lists like this one, or IRC at #gentoo.

-- 
Chad Huneycutt (chadh@gentoo.org)

[gentoo-dev] Re: how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[Paul]

"Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>, on Mon Jul 08, 2002 [10:18:44 AM] said:
> blinux@audiobraille.org wrote:
> >Hi,
> >	Just a question due to the fact that I'm a Debian user, and Gentoo
> >is deb-based;
> 
> Gentoo is definitely *not* Debian-based.  It is ports-based and inherits 
> more from BSD than any Linux distribution.
> 
> >	But does it provides a good offer of console minded applications,
> >and so, should it be usable by visually impaired users?
> 
> Well, we would certainly like to hear any suggestions that make Gentoo more 
> accessible.  The install is completely at the console -- is that what you 
> mean? And we would be happy to add any applications/kernel patches to the 
> portage tree to make it more accessible.  If you have a list of packages 
> that you think are essential, you can check them on
>      http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages.html
> or send them to the list, and we will do our best to add any that are 
> missing.
> 

	Hi;

	I wonder if anything ever came of this blind persons
comments? (seemed a reasonable request...)

	http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-June/012933.html

	Paul
	set@pobox.com

> Please try it out and let us know any shortcomings.  Our community is very 
> open and active, so if you would like to get in touch with us, you can use 
> the forums at http://forums.gentoo.org (down right now, unfortunately), the 
> mailing lists like this one, or IRC at #gentoo.
> 
> -- 
> Chad Huneycutt (chadh@gentoo.org)

[gentoo-dev] Re: how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[Troy Dack]

Paul wrote:

> Hi;
> 
> I wonder if anything ever came of this blind persons
> comments? (seemed a reasonable request...)
> 
> http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-June/012933.html
> 

Emerge the mjc-sources, IIRC they have the Speakup patch(es)

-- 
        Troy Dack
        http://linuxserver.tkdack.com           http://gentoo.tkdack.com

It's all in the mind, ya know.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[David Shepard]

The new -AC patches have the speakup patches as well.

--David


On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 10:35, Troy Dack wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I wonder if anything ever came of this blind persons
> > comments? (seemed a reasonable request...)
> > 
> > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-June/012933.html
> > 
> 
> Emerge the mjc-sources, IIRC they have the Speakup patch(es)
> 
> -- 
>         Troy Dack
>         http://linuxserver.tkdack.com           http://gentoo.tkdack.com
> 
> It's all in the mind, ya know.
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: how blindfriendly is Gentoo?

[Paul]

David Shepard <daveman@bellatlantic.net>, on Tue Jul 09, 2002 [10:49:26 AM] said:
> The new -AC patches have the speakup patches as well.
> 
> --David
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 10:35, Troy Dack wrote:
> > Paul wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi;
> > > 
> > > I wonder if anything ever came of this blind persons
> > > comments? (seemed a reasonable request...)
> > > 
> > > http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-dev/2002-June/012933.html
> > > 
> > 
> > Emerge the mjc-sources, IIRC they have the Speakup patch(es)
> > 
> > -- 
> >         Troy Dack

	Hi;

	That is great, but it doesnt address the problem of having Speakup in
the boot kernel on the install image, so it can be used to install the
system.
Scott is volunteering:

Paul
set@pobox.com

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Forwared Message:

From: Scott Howell <showell@lrxms.net>
Subject: Re: how blindfriendly is Gentoo?
To: Paul <set@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:08:32 -0400

I guess this was partly a response to my message from a bit back. I know
folks are quite busy. As far as making Gentoo speech friendly right off
is to merely patch the kernel with Speakup from http://www.speakup.org.
I can do this if you can tell me how to get my hands on the tree you all
build the boot cd or disk from.

Also the only other requirement, sorry two requirements are these.

1. The speakup keymap must be loaded to get the review key functions and
the keys that are affected are the num-pad keys and the keymap is based
on the US English keymap.
2. you must during the kernel compile say yes to Speakup, no to all of
the synthesizers and finally have the ability to at a lilo or whatever
boot prompt type in something like,

linux speakup_synth=ltlk

which is the kernel image name as you know speakup_synth a kernel boot
parm and then the four letter designation given for each of the
supported synths.
I'd be happy to help in any way I can so let me know. Its easier to try
to build this funtionallity into the existing configuration so as not to
have to maintain to many separate images, but maybe that would work best
I don't know.

tnx Scott