Re: Debian accessibility news
Hello,
Samuel Wales, on mar. 08 août 2017 18:06:54 -0700, wrote:
> debian is the only linux i have used, so i don't know. it's possible
> in principle that most issues [huge fonts, huge dpi, no blinking,
> etc.] are general to linux, but i think of debian as a leader in linux
> and free unix.
Well, Debian mostly uses the upstream software, it avoids patching over
them, and instead send improvements upstream. What Debian does, however,
is trying to integrate things as much as possible, such as enabling
accessibility by default.
I believe the issues you are having are general to Linux, yes. By "Huge
fonts" and "Huge dpi", I guess you mean that the desktop behaves badly
when using huge fonts or huge dpi ? I'm afraid that is to be expected
unfortunately, and instead a screen magnifier such as compiz should be
used.
About "no blinking", I'm not sure what you mean here.
> [some are potential broken packages, suggesting that they might in
> principle be debian-specific. i have heard that stretch ddccontrol is
> broken in at least some cases. that would be a total dealbreaker for
> me; i could not use the computer without it.]
The only reported issue about ddccontrol is
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696996
but that's very old, and more likely an upstream issue than a Debian
issue.
Samuel
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