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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:22:00PM EST, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote:
> Dear core developers of Ubuntu accessibility subsystems,
>
> I would like to please You, if your development team would be so kind and
> if You would try to think about making language accessibility menu during
> booting from A live CD more accessible.
Unfortunately, this is not as easy as one might think, due to the way the
language selection menu is done in the first place. The language selection is
done by the CD boot utility, called gfxboot. Gfxboot is responsible for
displaying the menu for choosing the CD options, the accessibility options, and
the language selection. In order to make this speech friendly, gfxboot would
have to be extended to know about sound cards, audio, and speech, which is way
too much for an initial boot program.
Having said that, Ii have an idea as to how this could be done, and hope to
work on it for the release after Ubuntu Intrepid. What I am thinking of doing,
is asking the user for their language if they enable accessibility. So for
example, one would boot the CD, press enter for Enlgish for the time being, but
when they choose to use speech for example, before any desktop or installer is
shown, they get asked the language they want, with speech or braille as
requested.
I hope this sounds ok, but as I explained, making the initial language menu
accessible is practically impossible.
Luke
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