[g-a-devel] Re: Gnopernicus on a Live CD?

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

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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