[gentoo-user] Question about gentoo accessibility.

[Matthew Dyer]

Good afternoon all,

This question might be better sooted for the accessibility list, but 
seeing that I don't seem to be getting help there I thought I would 
bring it up here.  First off, I am an orca user in the gui, but use 
espeakup in or fenrir in the concel.  I find that booting the officael 
iso, there is no easy way to boot up with speech. For example, in 
debian, at the boot prompt, pressing S will bring up the installer with 
speech and you can follow the prompts in the text installer which uses 
espeakup.  Could something simlar be done for gentoo?  My work around 
has been to use another linux distro iso.  I.E ubuntu to do the install 
following the wiki, but seening there is no way to get speech after, 
that is whare  I fall short.  The other problem is that if trying to 
install accessibility packages like orca, there seems to be alot of 
problems with conflicks with flags and dependencies.  For example, when 
installikng orca, it complans that espeak and espeak-ng can not be 
installed at the same time.  What is strange is that espeak is not even 
installed at this point.  Installing espeak-ng installs without a 
problem.  Perhaps this is a bug that perhaps is unreported.  Perhaps an 
accessibility profile could be created for this.  Thanks and hope that 
this is something that can be looked at.  The wiki doesn't have much in 
the way of accessibility in particular installing.  Thanks again.


Matthew