Re: KNOPPIX 6.0 Released

>    - The text to voice reader mostly only reads the line
> the cursor is on.
>    Not a big deal except that in many places there is no
> way to place the
>    cursor on some lines.
>    - The help says to use the ESCape key to back out of
> things to the
>    previous menu but some places it does not work and one
> has to use somethig
>    else with no indication of what.  I suspect some of this
> is unavoidable but
>    there needs to be some way to instruct the visually
> impaired that it is
>    about to happen and what they need to do.  Even if this
> is a separate
>    instructional audio or universal hotkeyed audio help.
>    - In some places such as where you configure the voice
> reader, the voice
>    reader does not distinguish whether the line it is
> speaking is a comment or
>    real and effective config line.
>    - under the graphic programs entry of the text menu,
> there is an item for
>    "Firefox webbrowser with graphical screen
> reader".  Potentially a very
>    useful item, it seems not to work.  It seems to enter a
> graphical black
>    screen with a cursor but after a long time with nothing
> else happening and
>    trying various means to get out of it, I finally used
> the power switch to
>    get out of it.
>    - There is only a 2 second delay before booting in the
> default manner (to
>    the textual menu).  Even if there were a single line
> saying to type knoppix
>    on the boot line to get the graphical desktop, that is
> not enough time to do
>    so.  The impact is that people who did not read that on
> a web site never
>    know they could.