A question about Debian.

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Oct 31 16:40:43 UTC 2008


krishnakant Mane, le Fri 31 Oct 2008 18:49:20 +0530, a écrit :
> On 29/10/2008, Rick <twelvestrings12 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Can Debian be installed by a blind person, if so, could you please explain
> > how?
> 
> I believe the only problem with debian installer is that there seams
> to be no support for software synth like espeak.

Not _yet_ indeed.

> I would like to know if there is an equally accessible installer in
> debian like ubuntu?
> it must be graphical or even command line but software synth support
> is the key.

It's not the key for deaf people for instance.

Yes, the Debian installer doesn't support software synth for now, but
it has _integrated_ support for braille devices (and in Lenny, hardware
synths), which is already a quite good start.

Samuel




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