Re: could You try to think about making language selection menu more accessible?

[Luke Yelavich]

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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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could You try to think about making language selection menu more accessible?

[Mgr. Janusz Chmiel]

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. 

Could be very complex to make algorithm, which could enable visually impaired 
users to choose A specific language by pressing two first letter of a word, 
which describes A specific language? Visually impaired user can not determine, 
how many times he or she must press down arrow key to choose language. This 
choice is very remarkable aspecially when visually impaired user is using Orca 
and choice to perform A installation of Ubuntu from A boot menu. I Am aware, 
that if A boot image is written in Assembler language, You do not like to 
modifi this source code and You are also limited by a syze of boot image file. 
But if it would be possible, atleast try to think about my suggestion.

Thank You very much for Your answer.

The kindness regards.

Janusz Chmiel
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