Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes:
> "On a public space" means "an installed system". There is currently
> nothing that turns "an installed system" into "a public space". And
> anyway, I'm using the public space example to emphasize it, but the
> situation happens just the same if you're going to a friend's place or
> whatever place where there is a computer: you may want to access it,
> just like sighted users may ("just to check my mail" or whatever).
This is really an important point, something I always wanted to see
tackled. A standard Debian Linux desktop should have a very simple,
possibly just via a key combination, way to enable at least speech.
While I think some people here might already know it, I have to bring up
the example: Apple implements this since a few years already. No matter
if it is iOS or Mac OS X, hand me an iPhone/iPad or a machine with
relatively recent Mac OS X, and I can start working with it without
needing sighted assistance, and without needing to install any
additional package (read, needs no network connection). It is sort of a shame
that Linux does not
do something similar.
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CYa,
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