Hello You might remember me, I had asked a few months ago concerning the projects that existed for blinds. I've set up a new system based on a debian with several modes:
The newbie installation is done under freedos (don't stone me, this is a way to ensure that their software braille device will be able to display the installation), it is very basic, only ask for the minimum and sets up two loopbacks (ext2/ext3 and swap) on the windows partition (we have someone working on the ntfs driver for dos), this way people having windows can smoothly try linux and remove it very easily if they don't feel satisfied. This installation can automatically set up brltty, (port/brand/...) which is the program to drive braille displays (and a few synthesis) under linux. There is also a vocal mode, with an ogg player for people unable or not willing to pay for a braille display, the installation is the same except that screader (it drives speech synthesis) will be loaded with mbrola (good speech synthesis, 25 languages, free but sadly enough not open source). (Other speech synthesis such as festival and eflite could of course be set up afterwards. Last but not least, I recently talked with Mr Lang about making this system much more attracting for experienced blind users. Since during the installation, we get all the informations to set up a braille display using brltty, we could for example write directly this configuration to a floppy (or anywhere else). Then rebooting the pc, they'd boot on a modified debian cd, this version of d-i would parse the configuration, load brltty and lead them to a normal installation using d-i. This way we could have on the same cd, the possibility to give blinds a first try of linux, and also a 'true' debian installation. Our installation is currently translated into 17 languages. Let me know what you think about it, Thanks seb ___________________________________________________________________ Haut Débit: Modem offert soit 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense de Wanadoo ! Profitez du Haut Débit ŕ partir de 30 euros/mois : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
