Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-04-05 Thread Rich Morin
I've been musing about a comment Samuel Thibault made a while back: > On Mar 2, 2020, at 07:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: >> ... More generally, is there a better way to provide accessibility at boot >> time

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-12 Thread Rich Morin
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. For example, following Jude's notion of checking for a monitor, maybe Avahi and SSH could be enabled whenever a monitor isn't found. For that matter, ena

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-11 Thread Rich Morin
Jude DaShiell said: > If dummy was used for monitor type, the screen reader could come up talking > without any monitor attached. ... I can think of a couple of issues with this approach. First, there are various reasons for leaving a monitor off a system. For example, if a RasPi is being us

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Morin
> On Mar 5, 2020, at 03:30, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > One thing I am missing in your description is: how is the system getting > installed in your use case? Is it installed by the blind user himself, > or by somebody else? Ideally, the system hardware and software could be installed and config

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Morin
Thanks to everyone for considering these questions, offering suggestions, etc. Here are some comments and clarifications. I don't know all the ins and outs of preseeding, etc. So, I'll talk about use cases. I'm mostly looking for a way to make freshly installed systems (e.g., PC, RasPi) acce

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Rich Morin
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. So, recasting my question, what would it take to make these changes to the default Debian installation? - include Fenrir,

boot-time accessibility issues

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Morin
velopment teams, but it seems logical to start at the headwaters (Debian), then move downstream. > On Feb 24, 2020, at 14:41, Samuel Thibault 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 sy