Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:33:18 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808292233.WAA10825@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:15:23 %2B0900." <19980830031523G.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp>
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> > For the installation, I can appreciate that this is an
> > excellent idea, and it should be quite easy to add these to the
> > release makefile.
>
> Yes. I looked at the Makefile and could think of some ways to easily
> achieve this. But since I'm not too sure what would be the
> appropriate way (or cosmetically best way), I'd like to leave it to
> someone who are more familiar with the release Makefile.
Down towards the bottom of the doMFSKERN target, the boot.help file is
copied into the boot images. Just do
@echo \07\07 >> ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/boot.help
(And if you were reading that entire makefile with a braille screen
reader, or a speech synth, I think you deserve some serious
compliments.)
> > This, I expect along with a number of other things, would make
> > a good start for an "accessibility pack", or a set of
> > accessibility-related customisations which should be
> > configurable at install time.
>
> Yep. This increase the possibility for more blind individuals to
> start using our system and then we can get more input and help from
> them.
Definitely. Even complaints about what's wrong with it right now are a
good start.
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