Re: Whonix - Advice on Accessibility for a Debian Derivative
Samuel Thibault:
> Patrick Schleizer, on Tue 15 Dec 2015 00:27:00 +0000, wrote:
>> I am a maintainer of Whonix, which is a Free/Libre Software derivative
>> of Debian. In essence, a pre-installed Debian with modifications. Ready
>> to be downloaded images to be used inside virtual machines.
>
> So it's a general-purpose image, not especially meant for accessibility?
Yes.
> How do user log into the virtual machine? Ssh, vnc, something else?
ssh / vnc not.
Using the platforms (virtualizer)'s graphical user interface. (Multi
platform)
Either,
- just like a normal Debian installation on hardware (which we call
physical isolation),
- VirtualBox gui,
- virt-manager (KVM gui) or
- Qubes.
>> Would it make sense to install all of the following?
>>
>> gnome-orca espeakup brltty brltty-speechd brltty-x11 console-braille
>> florence dasher kdeaccessibility kvkbd kmousetool kmag kmouth jovie
>
> xbrlapi could be useful too. On Debian it's getting pulled by a
> Recommends in gnome-orca and brltty-x11,
Ok.
> but perhaps you don't pull
> Recommends?
Not pulling recommends indeed.
> As of Stretch, qt-at-spi should now be getting pulled by libqt4gui
> already.
>
>> Any other packages that should be installed by default?
>
> Better voice support for english can be obtained by installing festival.
>
>> Any other settings that should be tuned by default?
>
> For a general-purpose image, the default settings of Debian should
> already be fine. If they're not, we shall fix that in Debian.
Sounds good!
Cheers,
Patrick
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