Accessibility of installer in 11.10
Good morning, I was reading http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/24/ubuntu-12-04-accessibility-plans/ and am curious if it is possible to install Ubuntu 11.10 using speech synthesis, with any degree of ease / reliability? If not, is an actual usable / accessible installer for the blind part of the plan for 12.04? Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessibility of installer in 11.10
On 27/11/11 11:15, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, I was reading http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/24/ubuntu-12-04-accessibility-plans/ and am curious if it is possible to install Ubuntu 11.10 using speech synthesis, with any degree of ease / reliability? If not, is an actual usable / accessible installer for the blind part of the plan for 12.04? yes, it is possible. Put the live CD in, and press ctrl+s when you hear the drums, that will start Orca, and focus will be on the orca window, alt+tab to switch to the installer window and from there you can run a live session or go through the install. It is a bit clunky in places and we plan for it to be better in 12.04 Alan. -- The Open Learning Centre is rebranding, find out about our new name and look at http://libertus.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility of installer in 11.10
Good morning, I was reading http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/24/ubuntu-12-04-accessibility-plans/ and am curious if it is possible to install Ubuntu 11.10 using speech synthesis, with any degree of ease / reliability? If not, is an actual usable / accessible installer for the blind part of the plan for 12.04? Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessibility of installer in 11.10
Most of the time your best bet will be to get a good ks.cfg file and use that to install ubuntu rather than trying to muck around with the installers. Those are available on the web specifically for ubuntu too. The problem with ks.cfg or kickstart is that it's not documented well so getting ubuntu to find your ks.cfg file on a floppy disk inserted into what would be a: in dos or /dev/fd0 or /floppy in Linux depending on aliases in place might be a bit difficult. If a system has accessibility one could put a line like aplay /usr/share/sounds/login.wav in the %post% section of the ks.cfg file which tells the system to play a sound file so you know it's finished installing the software. Then you could remove the floppy reboot the system and say hit control-s and log in after that. The thing with a ks.cfg file is you get the file to answer all questions the ubuntu installer will ask ahead of time, so when it works it's a stick disk in machine turn the machine on and forget about the machine for a couple hours while everything installs and then your sound file plays. Nice thing about ks.cfg files is that anyone with an ascii text editor can make one if you get the format right and put a valid ubuntu mirror url into it to go and install the system's updates after everything on the live-cd or live-dvd gets installed by the ks.cfg file. It takes a little more study, but then you don't always have to be hampered by less than perfect accessibility in the installer. On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, I was reading http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/24/ubuntu-12-04-accessibility-plans/ and am curious if it is possible to install Ubuntu 11.10 using speech synthesis, with any degree of ease / reliability? If not, is an actual usable / accessible installer for the blind part of the plan for 12.04? Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
