Bug#820911: installation-report: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 11:41:48PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 debian-installer
>
>Hello,
>
>Alex ARNAUD, on Wed 13 Apr 2016 17:51:45 +0200, wrote:
>> I've tried to reproduce the instructions in the Debian installation guide in
>> "Accessibility" section at "5.2.7 High-Contrast Theme" :
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch05s02.html.en#idp71552032
>>
>> * What was the outcome of this action?
>>
>> I'm not able to enable the high-contract theme.
>
>? This works for me. Did you take care that the keyboard is using a
>qwerty layout at boot menu?
He didn't mention it in the bug report, but Alex was talking about his
problem on irc beforehand. He's booting in UEFI mode (and hence using
Grub rather than isolinux). While it's possible to set extra
variables on the Grub command line, it's much more involved and likely
to be very difficult for a sight-impaired user.
>> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>>
>> The best way should be to have only a unique key shortcut (maybe "h" for
>> high-contrast theme) to launch the ncurse installer.
>
>Well, it's not really the ncurses installer which matters, but selecting
>the dark theme. Now, a shortcut is something being considered, see
>thread on
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/01/msg00346.html
>I believe we agreed how we want it to look like, and now it's a "matter"
>of implementing it.
Ah, I missed that thread. It would be much easier for people using
Grub if we added an extra menu level, definitely.
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