Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, probably the Smithsonian hasn't got your latest update though. On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Paul Gevers wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:45:56 > From: Paul Gevers > To: Jude DaShiell , > Martin McCormick , > debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Can grub be made to talk? > >

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Heh, On 24-07-2019 19:42, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Company is defunct and maybe you find one of those in an > accessibility technology museum exhibit along with emacspeak running on > another computer. Should I stop uploading *new upstream versions* of emacspeak then? Just did one upload last eveni

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
That was the Screen Rover system a long time ago marketed by a Canadian company. Company is defunct and maybe you find one of those in an accessibility technology museum exhibit along with emacspeak running on another computer. On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Martin McCormick wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 201

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread Martin McCormick
I can't count the number of times I have said, to myself, "Speech/Braille/you name it; should be in some kind of low-level jail on a computer that starts before anything else does and is the last thing to go dark before the power goes off." Petitboot is what I was thinking of even if I ca

Re: Can grub be made to talk?

2019-07-24 Thread David J. Ring, Jr.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=morse+console&searchon=all&suite=stable§ion=all The one you want is aldo but unixcw is very nice.  Unixcw has both a gui and cli program but the cli program is called cw so many miss it. unixcw just sends Morse code. There is also a very old program

Re: More info about petitboot? - was {Re: Can grub be made to talk?}

2019-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/24/2019 06:07 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Richard Owlett, le mer. 24 juil. 2019 05:57:55 -0500, a ecrit: On 07/24/2019 01:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] - petitboot is an interesting approach: you boot a Linux kernel that only runs petitboot, and there you can run a screen reader

Re: More info about petitboot? - was {Re: Can grub be made to talk?}

2019-07-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Owlett, le mer. 24 juil. 2019 05:57:55 -0500, a ecrit: > On 07/24/2019 01:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > [snip] - petitboot is an interesting approach: you boot a Linux kernel > > that > >only runs petitboot, and there you can run a screen reader such as > >brltty. That can then

More info about petitboot? - was {Re: Can grub be made to talk?}

2019-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/24/2019 01:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] - petitboot is an interesting approach: you boot a Linux kernel that only runs petitboot, and there you can run a screen reader such as brltty. That can then boot the real kernel for the targetted system. I had never heard of petitboo