Greetings all For those of you who tracked the specifications during the Paris developer's summit, you will probably know that there were some important accessibility related specifications that were drafted, and subsequently approved. Among those specifications, there was speakup inclusion,(1) and spoken boot.(2) Both specifications state that configuration will allow them to be off by default, but allow them also to be turned on if a user so wishes. Both these specifications also rely on other packages, some of which have to be loaded via an init script at system startup.
Since these services need to be turned off by default, and since the spoken boot specification requires additions to the initramfs, I am proposing that for this release at least, a script be written to more easily allow the user to turn features on and off accordingly. This can then be re-written to be a more useful control panel for all accessibility options, and support more desktop environments in future releases. I am currently working on the userspace scripts required for the speakup inclusion specification, and will also be doing so shortly for spoken boot, so it won't take much to include what I have proposed above. However, I am wondering about how we may present these options to the user. Even though speakup is a console tool, users may still wish to enable it when in GNOME, and they also may wish to enable spoken boot. I was thinking it may be possible to extend the assistive technologies control panel somehow, and add a tab with the options available, but I also think we should have a command-line tool available to enable/disable/show status as well. Thoughts and suggestions welcome. (1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeakupInclusion (2) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpokenBoot -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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