On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:33:29AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > [Sorry to debian-accessibility people, re-sending with proper To:] > > Hello, > > It has been suggested a few times (471410, 511329, 516723) to > add an "accessibility" item to tasksel, which would e.g. install > gnome-accessibility. The task would be automatically selected when > accessibility features was used during d-i itself. > > However, Mario Lang raised: > > `While it is a possible approach to have the installer explicitly > select packages for the users who are going to use the machine, > it is also obvious that an administrator might not know in advance > that a person with special needs is going to use this machine. > If we think this through, we realize that what would be most desireable > is to have accessibility infrastructure installed by default on a > default desktop, so that a person with special needs can just activate > it at login time if they need to.' > > `What if, for example, you walk up to a friend/coworker and talk about > some issue. You end up wanting to show them something, so you'd > actually like to login on tehir Linux machine with accessibility enabled > so that you can work together on the project. However, since nobody > thought their machine would ever be used by a disabled person, the > necessary software would not be installed.'
What does it take to "enable" them? Furthermore, if you're a blind person using KDE, what good would it do for you that dasher is installed on the system? That is: accessibility sounds to me a bit like l10n: normally no point in installing all of it. Most potential users would need just part of it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
