[raspberry-vi] Re: Happy Birthday Raspberry VI
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:40:21 +0000
Hello Rill,
The year has gone by very fast. I think our greatest victory to date
has been Emacspeak, and thanks to Jason for first getting that to run on
Arch Linux.
I say that Emacspeak is the greatest victory for us because it is so
much more than just a screen-reader. And your use of it demonstrates
that admirably.
In 2014 we can hopefully get audio latency issues fixed, perhaps to such
a degree that text-to-speech can work on other Linux distributions and
we can take kernel and firmware updates off the Arch Linux black-list
and create a totally up to date version.
Mike
On 31/12/2013 00:33, Rill wrote:
> Only a year and so much has been accomplished!
> Rill
> On 12/30/2013 6:30 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> It was a year ago today (31st December) that I created this list while I
>> waited for my first Raspberry Pi to drop through the letter box.
>>
>> The list was created because while I was waiting to get my mits on the
>> little board I could not find answers to some of the questions I had
>> which were relevant to me as a blind user. Questions like 'is there an
>> SSH server running out-of-the-box' and 'what are all these sockets and
>> spikey pins'.
>>
>> A year on my knowledge of Linux has increased by an order of magnitude
>> and several of us have had some fun trying to get some accessibility
>> tools running on the Pi.
>>
>> We have the Accessible Arch Linux image on the web site. This has the
>> SpeakUp screen-reader and Emacspeak running on it.
>>
>> Unfortunately their continues to be problems with firmware changes and
>> latency issues meaning we have had to black-list kernel updates, and the
>> Accessible Arch image will currently not boot on a Pi board with a Hynix
>> RAM chip.
>>
>> But I'm working on fixing that, if I can.
>>
>> We have several new joiners since Christmas day so I guess Santa may
>> have been carrying a few Raspberry Pi boards on his sleigh.
>>
>> The list is very quiet. This means either that nobody is doing anything
>> with their Pi, or they are not sharing what they are doing.
>>
>> So come on, what are you all up to?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
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