Re: building a custon talking debian installation image with build essential and other packages on the disc as well as the mate accessible desktop

["D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>]

Nick,

Please use the non free images because many blind people are connecting by Wi-Fi and the drivers are only on the non free images. Also add the Unofficial multimedia sources so blind people can use the non free codecs.

It takes a lot of work to make Debian normal.

But Debian still is the best, I just wish they'd stop the non free prohibition and put printer and multimedia and Firefox in their ISO.

Best wishes,

David

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 15:29 Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com> wrote:

Hi, I am totally blind and know about pressing s to start the installer
with speech as I do this then go back to the main menu and set debconf
priority to low so I have the most control during the installation
process.  I looked into the simple-cdd package for building a debian
installation image but could not find out how to include the full mate
debian desktop with orca the screen reader setup for speech as well as
build-essential and other development packages.  What would be the best
process for building such an image that starts automatically at low
priority with speech running and a highor volume level then normal for
systems where you would like speech to be not so soft during the
installation process?  Nick Gawronski