At Samuel Thibault's suggestion, I'm bringing some boot-time accessibility
issues to this list. Please excuse any naivete on my part; I'm not an expert
on many of these topics.
As I understand it, Orca is generally installed as a dependency of a desktop.
This makes me wonder whether a server system would (or should) have it. This
isn't an idle question: Ubuntu Server is available for the Raspberry Pi 4, but
Ubuntu MATE is not.
Next, assume that a blind user has just installed a Debian-based system (e.g.,
Raspbian, Ubuntu) on a RasPi. If they want to access it via SSH, they'll need
a running SSH daemon and a way to determine the RasPi's IP address. Avahi
seems to be the Golden Path for zero-configuration networking on Linux. Might
it be possible to enable this by default?
-r
P.S. I realize that Raspbian and Ubuntu have their own development teams, but
it seems logical to start at the headwaters (Debian), then move downstream.
> On Feb 24, 2020, at 14:41, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 08:22:06 -0800, a ecrit:
>> 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.
>
> Orca is curently installed by default on Debian systems, by being a
> dependency of task-{kde,lxde,lxqt,xfce,mate}-desktop and gnome. In most of
> these desktop environments, pressing control-logo-s starts Orca. Ideally,
> all desktop environments would support this shortcut. ...
>
>> 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.
>
> Ssh is installed when you enable the ssh task. Apparently avahi is not, but
> that would be something to discuss with debian-boot@.
