On 3/2/2020 4:57 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: >> In another forum, I've been told that Orca is a rather heavyweight solution >> for providing boot-time speech generation. It was recommended that I >> consider Fenrir, instead. > > Fenrir is also quite heavy-weight, since it brings python. Brltty would > be much less heavy-weight (but still bring e.g. libicu) > >> So, recasting my question, what would it take to make these changes to the >> default Debian installation? >> >> - include Fenrir, with some sort of key combination to activate it > > On the Linux console there is currently no way to activate a program > through a key combination. > > What is the installation use case, actually? Is it again the raspi case? > As mentioned previously the raspi team handles it, so it'd rather have > to be discussed with them. > >> More generally, is there a better way to provide accessibility at boot time? > > The question is how to detect that it is needed. We can't just install > and run a screen reader by default on all Debian systems, so something > needs to trigger the screen reader startup. >
Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired would go a lon way. -- John Doe
