On 2/24/2020 5:22 PM, Rich Morin wrote: > 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. >
This is the case for Debian but for fork/distro based on Debian it is up to the maintainer(s) of those distros to keep that in mind. > 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". > Debian does a pretty good job at this. > 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. > This is the default if you install ssh during installation. Basically, the points you are bringing up are valid but Debian has nothing to do with them. -- John Doe
