hi,
hoping somebody can help.
i am going to do a full-upgrade, and i have 2 things i have been
trying to do so that i can get decent accessibility.
1.
in various places, such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is
blue, grey, and red, with black text.
e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes uses it. i have a lot of trouble with
blue and some trouble with the brightness of the grey, but still want
contrast. can i change these colors to somethign that works better
for me? e.g. orange on black.
[also the fonts are a bit small. but if i use x and a high dpi
setting, i might be able to tolerate that. not sure.]
2.
i am going to do full-upgrade in screen or tmux in an xterm.
the only xterm i have gotten semi-legible is urxvt:
urxvt -fn "xft:bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=32" \
-background '#cd8000'
this is color-backward from what i want [and also e.g. cannot read
some colors like magenta as not contrasty enough]. also the font is a
bit too small for me. idk where find a number to substitute for 32.
i want orange on black for various health reasons. tried various
obvious options on the cmd line and in .Xresources, but black turns up
as off-white. also there is a grey border on the left that does not
go away with -bl and similar options.
i welcome any suggeestins for ther configs or other xterms. i don't
use xterms much, but i want them accessible. with legible ansi colors
and preferably also with no borders, and known mechanisms of
scrollback etc. [pickyu aren't i?]
fwiw i use fluxbox with no decortions and usually maximize everything
so that enough shows. dpi = 216. large fonts.
p.s. regarding the linux vt console:
while i hope i will not have to use a linux vt for various reasons as
the release notes suggest [x can give me better accessibility], those
do ot work for me [i have some issue where i cannot switch them atm so
can't use with x].
the accessibility issues include the white is much much too bright.
prefer orange on black or so. i can't always get legibly large fonts.
i can't make the blinking cursor into a filled red block cursor
permanently.
and for me for whatever reason there are non-accessibility issues
like getting scrollback, stopping too-fast scrollback, cursor going
back to beginning of line randomly, and asynchronicity that puts
notificatins after e.g. prompts.
so that is why i am trying to fix an xterm to work for me, and i also
hope that debian dialog can be made better for me.
thank you all.
