p.s. please include my email in the headers as i have not figured out how to get gmail to filter-in mailing list conversations that have me in them. so i tend to risk losing replies unless they to: or cc: me. thank you.
On 4/3/23, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
