colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

hi,

hoping somebody can help.

i am going to do a full-upgrade, and i have 2 things i have been
trying to do so that i can get decent accessibility.

1.

in various places,  such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is
blue, grey, and red, with black text.

e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes uses it.  i have a lot of trouble with
blue and some trouble with the brightness of the grey, but still want
contrast.  can i change these colors to somethign that works better
for me?  e.g. orange on black.

[also the fonts are a bit small.  but if i use x and a high dpi
setting, i might be able to tolerate that.  not sure.]

2.

i am going to do full-upgrade in screen or tmux in an xterm.

the only xterm i have gotten semi-legible is urxvt:

    urxvt -fn "xft:bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=32" \
        -background '#cd8000'

this is color-backward from what i want [and also e.g. cannot read
some colors like magenta as not contrasty enough].  also the font is a
bit too small for me.  idk where find a number to substitute for 32.

i want orange on black for various health reasons.  tried various
obvious options on the cmd line and in .Xresources, but black turns up
as off-white.  also there is a grey border on the left that does not
go away with -bl and similar options.

i welcome any suggeestins for ther configs or other xterms.  i don't
use xterms much, but i want them accessible.  with legible ansi colors
and preferably also with no borders, and known mechanisms of
scrollback etc.  [pickyu aren't i?]

fwiw i use fluxbox with no decortions and usually maximize everything
so that enough shows.  dpi = 216.  large fonts.


p.s. regarding the linux vt console:

while i hope i will not have to use a linux vt for various reasons as
the release notes suggest [x can give me better accessibility], those
do ot work for me [i have some issue where i cannot switch them atm so
can't use with x].

the accessibility issues include the white is much much too bright.
prefer orange on black or so.  i can't always get legibly large fonts.
i can't make the blinking cursor into a filled red block cursor
permanently.

and for me for whatever reason  there are non-accessibility issues
like getting scrollback, stopping too-fast scrollback, cursor going
back to beginning of line randomly, and asynchronicity that puts
notificatins after e.g. prompts.

so that is why i am trying to fix an xterm to work for me, and i also
hope that debian dialog can be made better for me.

thank you all.