* John G. Heim jheim@math.wisc.edu [111102 22:50]:
Can you (or someone else interested in this) draft a list of things we would need to do/ship to actually have working accesibility support
<> (for you)?
This includes everything that might be there right now. I myself have never seen such a setup, so please be explicit.
I'd better ask around before I give you a definative list. I think I know what to tell you but I'll check it out to make sure. I own a hardware speech synthesizer so I think for me, just including the speakup kernel modules would be enough. And that code is now in the mainstream kernel code. You don't have to do anything but check the boxes for it when you're configuring a kernel.
On a debian system, to get software speech, you need the speakup modules and you need to install two packages, espeak and espeakup. To get braille, you need the brltty package.
There's now a testbuild of GRML_MEDIUM (64-bits) with espeakup, espeak and brltty at this URL: http://jenkins.grml.org/job/grml-medium-amd64/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/2...
Please test it; let us know if it works, if it doesn't, if it's missing something, etc.
Note that this build has some ALSA/Sound support, which is something that might get removed, too. Don't know if this would have any impact on you.
-ch