I have some (probably naive) notions on improving the turnkey accessibility of Debian and downstream distributions such as Raspbian and Ubuntu. Can folks let me know whether any of these are feasible, already in place, etc?
The first notion has to do with the initial accessibility of the system. There is probably a minimum set of tools (e.g., Fenrir, Orca) that would let a user get started. If these were installed and configured properly on any Debian-derived system, a blind user could hit a well-known key combination and gain access. Once the user can access the command line, their next task is to install a working set of accessibility packages. This could be aided by the creation of a meta-package for accessibility, including packages such as BRLTTY, MATE, and ratpoison. I realize that there may be no consensus on the total list of such packages, but it should be possible to agree on a reasonable "working set". Finally, on systems based on the Raspberry Pi and similar devices, it would be helpful for the OS to come up with SSH and Avahi enabled, allowing the user to log in conveniently from another system. -r
