Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:39:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, max@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessability (was Re: question) Message-ID: <199807250039.RAA01325@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:32:28 -0000." <199807250032.RAA18039@usr06.primenet.com>
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> > > It seems that it would be a good idea to provide some way to invoke > > > this with as little work as possible from a boot floppy. > > > > There is an option in the bootstrap to probe the keyboard; I'm not sure > > if it's the default or not. If the keyboard's not present, it will use > > the serial port. > > Presuming that the machine will not ask the user to hit F1 if the > keyboard is missing. > > The bigger question is whether or not the screen-oriented install > methodology would not be a problem. > > The issue here is that the words on the screen are not painted in > "speech order" -- the order a human would read them aloud -- nor are > they painted in their entirety, due to minimal redraw optimizations. The screen layout in sysinstall was worked on by Jordan in conjunction with Max, who is quite well versed in these things. Hence bringing him into the discussion. 8) > I'm not claiming that I'm the first guy to think about this, only > that someone with the ability to make the changes to the FreeBSD > source tree *should* be thinking about it. Agreed. Where are they? 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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