LiveCdAccess

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Live CD Access

Further improve the Live CD access features.

Sarah has low vision and finds the current live CD boot menu difficult to use. She read on the website that she should boot the CD and press F5 but the menu that pops up then is too small to be of use to her. A full-screen, hight-contrast version would alow her to perform the Live CD boot and system install independently.
Oscar is blind and has a similar problem with the boot menu as Sarah, though the large version won't help him. Some audio feedback, either spoken words or distinctive tones would be a great help.
Henrik is very pleased with the default support for sticky keys on the new live CD. With that he can boot the CD and start using the Gnome menus directly and also launch and complete the Ubiquity install process independently. Some areas of the Ubuquity installer are a bit cumbersome to navigate with the keyboard, but it works.
All users: After the install is complete, the access features that were enabled in the Live session are no longer turned on. This means these users cannot actually start using the system until someone else comes along and activates the access features.

For Edgy we should expand the scope to include:

Better provisions in the gfxboot menu for the visually impaired
Ensure that administration tools run as sudo can communicate via AT-SPI
Test Ubiquity thuroughly for AT-SPI functionality
Allow acessibility profiles used during the live CD session to be installed to the HD
integrate the new assistive technologies appearing in dapper, which may include: Orca, SOK, compiz-mag, speech dispatcher, speakup and kttsd
Kubuntu and Xubuntu versions (with U/Edubuntu already being established)

Mock-up of a new, high-contrast boot menu:

attachment:NewBootMenu.png

Can gfxboot support the type of menu illustrated above, and can it upport audio playback?

Accessibility/Specs/LiveCdAccess (last edited 2008-08-06 16:24:25 by localhost)

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+ * Sarah has low vision and finds the current live CD boot menu difficult to use. She read on the website that she should boot the CD and press '''F5''' but the menu that pops up then is too small to be of use to her. A full-screen, hight-contrast version would alow her to perform the Live CD boot and system install independently. 
 * Oscar is blind and has a similar problem with the boot menu as Sarah, though the large version won't help him. Some audio feedback, either spoken words or distinctive tones would be a great help.
 * Henrik is very pleased with the default support for sticky keys on the new live CD. With that he can boot the CD and start using the Gnome menus directly and also launch and complete the Ubiquity install process independently. Some areas of the Ubuquity installer are a bit cumbersome to navigate with the keyboard, but it works. 
 * All users: After the install is complete, the access features that were enabled in the Live session are no longer turned on. This means these users cannot actually start using the system until someone else comes along and activates the access features.