Re: Installation of Redhat without a sighted assistance

["Angelo Sonnesso" <n2f7a5gv coastalnet com>]

Are there any boot disk images that have been compiled with say Speakout for
Redhat., or Brltty? How early can you get the serial device working.
Thought I might try the installation at work with my Braille Lite, oh well
just a thought.  I wonder if there is a 3270 emulator program for Linux that
would work with an Attachmate card?
Thanks for all the hard work.


-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran nimbus ocis temple edu>
To: blinux-list redhat com <blinux-list redhat com>
Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 11:38 PM
Subject: Installation of Redhat without a sighted assistance


>Hello, listers!
>Has anyone tried to contact Redhat concerning making their installation
more
>accessible to the blind? At this point the only way I can see is in using
>the kickstart script. However, in a couple of cases I have seen it doesn't
>exactly follow the logic of what is outlined in the README file that
>accompanies the utility. Microsoft WIndows, for a long time already,
allowed
>its users to install itself with just a similar script. (Although it was
>rarely documented). Redhat went quite ahead with their  kickstart
procedure,
>which might prove to be useful. However, there are two problems:
>1. Users with little knowledge of Linux and how the process of
>repartitioning works can be easily disoriented. If the script is
>badly-constructed or Redhat is confused about something, it will just stop
>and ask you certain questions, which is of no use to the blind. So,
>certainly, a more context-sensitive help would be needed here.
>2. The structure of Redhat installation, as I understand it, doesn't allow
>blind users to get speech output before installation is finished. Kirk with
>his Speakup has a very nice idea of compiling speech into kernel. Do you
>think it would be possible to make this a standart on all Linux
>distributions? Say, they would include a kernel with precompiled speech
and,
>of course, the speech patch would incorporate some automation routines to
>detect a speech synth.
>
>Should we start perhaps bugging Redhat and others? Can we? Is it fair?
>Let me know what you think.
>Victor
>
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