On 2/26/19, Samuel Henrique <samuel...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just passing along feedback that I received from a Brazilian user who > could not install Debian using speech synthesis, he was using the latest > stable ISO (but this should be happening for sometime now). > > The problem was that right at the start there is a screen to choose the > language of the installation process and the system installed, with a list > of 29 languages, and then the following: > "Next choices are available with '+' ". > > He didn't understand the last part and thought there was no Portuguese > support, as the languages are sorted alphabetically and the 29th one is > Lithuanian. > > Now, my main goal here is to report this so we can have a datapoint. I'm > not sure about the fixes though as I'm not experienced in accessibility, > but I would be happy if there was a way to solve this. > > The first quickest and dirtiest solution that I see is to just list all of > the languages at once, without paginating it, and thus requiring the user > to only understand the English translation o the numbers.
Would... having something say "M - Z" or "M to Z" (or even both, perhaps with one in parentheses) along with the '+' help any? Just thinking out loud... after pondering for a few seconds. This is a toughy. You'd have to find something universally translatable for those very seconds in Time... before Users get in the door to the language they speak and understand. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
