Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 12 mars 2020 09:28:49 -0700, a ecrit: > The idea of detecting the presence (or absence) of a blind-related device > seems worth pursuing, even if there are some issues to be resolved.
The Debian Installer detects the presence of a braille device and then enables accessibility automatically. > For example, following Jude's notion of checking for a monitor, maybe Avahi > and SSH could be enabled whenever a monitor isn't found. That might be frowned on: opening such ports just because a monitor is not detected seems a bit scary to me. > For that matter, enabling Orca (or whatever) by default when no > monitor is present wouldn't be that big a problem for a sighted user. Actually it would be. The accessibility stack slows applications down, at least a bit, and thus we can't really enable it by default, only keep it ready to be enabled on a shortcut press. > I've been wondering about the notion of checking for a USB flash drive that > contains some sort of magic files. The files probably can't contain > executable binary files (due to hardware incompatibility issues), but they > could certainly contain textual configuration data. Can anyone suggest ideas > for file content, format, naming, etc? This is actually what the GPII project is after: https://gpii.net/ Samuel
